PurposeCommand or Action
Configures a descriptive string for the policy.
(Optional) description policy-description
Step 3
Example:
The string can be any alphanumeric string up
to 80 characters. Enclose the string in quotation
marks.
switch(config-applet)# description
"Monitors interface shutdown."
Configures the event statement for the policy.
event event-statement
Example:
Step 4
switch(config-applet)# event cli match
"shutdown"
Correlates multiple events in the policy.
(Optional) tag tag {and | andnot | or} tag [and
| andnot | or {tag}] {happens occurs in
seconds}
Step 5
The range for the occurs argument is from 1 to
4294967295.
Example:
The range for the seconds argument is from 0
to 4294967295 seconds.
switch(config-applet)# tag one or two
happens 1 in 10000
Configures an action statement for the policy.
Repeat this step for multiple action statements.
action number[.number2] action-statement
Example:
Step 6
switch(config-applet)# action 1.0 cli
show interface e 3/1
Displays information about the status of the
configured policy.
(Optional) show event manager policy-state
name [module module-id]
Example:
Step 7
switch(config-applet)# show event manager
policy-state monitorShutdown
Saves the change persistently through reboots
and restarts by copying the running
configuration to the startup configuration.
(Optional) copy running-config startup-config
Example:
switch(config)# copy running-config
startup-config
Step 8
What to do next
Configure event statements and action statements.
Configuring Event Statements
Use one of the following commands in EEM configuration mode (config-applet) to configure an event
statement:
Before you begin
Define a user policy.
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Configuring Event Statements