Viewing the table of Process Control rules

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The Process Control rules table is displayed on the Rules tab in the Process Control section of the application web interface. The table provides the general settings of rules and of the tags and devices associated with the rules.

When viewing the rules table, you can use the following functions:

• Configure the display and order of columns in the rules table
  1. On the Rules tab, in the Process Control section, click the Customize table link to open the window for configuring how the table is displayed.
  2. Select the check boxes opposite the settings that you want to view in the table. You must select at least one setting.

     The following settings are available for selection:

     • Rule ID – unique ID of the rule.
     • Device group – name of the group containing the device associated with the tag (contains the name of the group and the names of all its parent groups in the device group tree).
     • Device – name of the device associated with the tag.
     • Protocol – name of the protocol used to transmit the tag.
     • Tag name – defined name of the tag for which the rule was created.
     • Rule – defined name of the rule.
     • State – current state of the rule (Enabled or Disabled).
     • Rule description – defined description of the rule.
     • Condition type – name of the selected type of condition for the rule.
     • Created – date and time when the rule was created.
     • Changed – date and time of the most recent change in the rule.
     • Event title – header of the event that was registered when the rule was triggered.
     • Event severity – severity of the event that was registered when the rule was triggered.
     • Event description – description of the event that was registered when the rule was triggered.
     • Origin – information about the source of the rule.
  3. If you want to change the order in which columns are displayed, select the name of the column that needs to be moved to the left or right in the table and use the buttons containing an image of the up or down arrows.

  The selected columns will be displayed in the tags table in the order you specified.

• Filtering based on table columns

  To filter rules by the Rule ID, Device, Tag name or Rule column:

  1. On the Rules tab in the Process Control section, click the filtering icon in the relevant column of the table.

     The filtering window opens.

  2. In the Including and Excluding fields, enter the values for rules that you want to include in the filter and/or exclude from the filter.
  3. If you want to apply multiple filter conditions combined by the logical operator OR, in the filter window of the selected column click the Add condition button and enter the condition in the opened field.
  4. If you want to delete one of the created filter conditions, in the filter window of the selected column click the icon.
  5. Click OK.

  To filter rules by the Device group column:

  1. On the Rules tab in the Process Control section, click the filtering icon in the Device group column.

     The filtering window opens.

  2. Click the icon in the right part of the field for indicating the device group.

     The Select group in tree window appears.

  3. In the device group tree, select the relevant group and click the Select button.

     The path to the selected group will appear in the field in the filter window.

  4. If you want to apply multiple filter conditions combined by the logical operator OR, in the filter window click the Add condition (OR) button and specify a different group in the opened field.
  5. If you want to delete one of the created filter conditions, in the filter window click the icon.
  6. Click OK.

  To filter rules by the Protocol column:

  1. On the Rules tab in the Process Control section, click the filtering icon in the Protocol column.

     The filtering window opens.

  2. In the Protocols field, choose the relevant protocol from the supported application-layer protocols. To do so, start entering the name of the protocol and select the relevant protocol from the drop-down list (the list of suitable protocols is automatically expanded when the value in the Protocols field is changed).

     You can sort the opened list of protocols by clicking the Sort link.

  3. If you want add another protocol, click the Add protocol button and specify the other protocol in the opened field.
  4. If you want to delete one of the specified protocols, click the icon in the filter window. You can also delete all specified protocols by clicking the Default filter link in the filter window.
  5. Click OK.

  To filter rules by the State, Event severity or Origin column:

  1. On the Rules tab in the Process Control section, click the filtering icon in the relevant column.

     When filtering based on the states or sources of Process Control rules, you can also use the corresponding buttons in the toolbar.

     The filtering window opens.

  2. Select the check boxes opposite the values by which you want to filter events.
  3. Click OK.

  To filter rules by the Created or Changed column:

  1. On the Rules tab in the Process Control section, click the filtering icon in the relevant column.

     The calendar opens.

  2. In the calendar, specify the date for the start and end boundaries of the filtering period. To do so, select a date in the calendar (the current time will be indicated) or manually enter the value in the format DD-MM-YYYY hh:mm:ss. If you don't need to specify the date and time of the filtering period boundary, you can choose not to select a date or you can delete the current value.
  3. Click OK.
• Rule search

  You can find relevant rules by using the Rule search field on the Rules tab in the Process control section.

  A search is performed in all columns except the State, Condition type, Created, Changed, Event title, Event severity, Event description and Origin columns.

• Resetting the defined filter and search settings

  You can reset the defined filter and search settings in the Process Control rules table by using the Default filter button in the toolbar on the Rules tab in the Process control section. The button is displayed if search or filter settings are defined.

• Sorting rules
  1. On the Rules tab in the Process Control section, click the header of the column by which you want to sort.
  2. If you need to sort the table based on multiple columns, press the SHIFT key and hold it down while clicking the headers of the columns by which you want to sort.

  The table will be sorted by the selected column. When sorting by multiple columns, the rows of the table are sorted according to the sequence of column selection. Next to the headers of columns used for sorting, you will see icons displaying the current sorting order: in ascending order or descending order of values.

• Updating the rules table

  Process Control rules could be changed on the Server while you are viewing the rules table. For example, the Process Control rules table becomes outdated if an application user in a different connection session modifies rules or if the application converts rules while in learning mode.

  To keep the Process Control rules table up to date, you can enable automatic update of the rules.

  To enable or disable automatic update of the Process Control rules table:

  On the Rules tab in the Process Control section, use the Autoupdate toggle button.