Reassign, Suppress, and Drop Events from Jobs

Excluding Actions from Reports

When the Action menu is expanded, you can choose to exclude that Action from all reporting metrics if you have the Jobs - View permission. Excluded Actions still appear in Job Results and can be included in reporting again using the same menu.

An Action that has been excluded from reporting displays a message identifying its status

Reassigning, Suppressing, and Dropping Events

IMPORTANT: Reassigning, suppressing, and dropping events from Job Actions will impact the detected result and could impact the pass/fail result.

To improve the context already provided by automatic event attribution, you can suppress or drop events from a Job Action or relocate events to another Action in the Job. Using Modify Events, you can tailor a Job Results page to focus on a particular security technology's events, eliminate white noise, or correct a misleading automatic event attribution. For example, if you're configuring one of five security technologies, you could delete all events that weren't related to the security technology you're configuring.

If there are one or more events associated with a Job, the Modify Events option is available. When selected, you can select one or more events and then suppress them, drop them, or move them to a different Action.

Permissions required: Event - Edit permission, which is disabled for all Validation Platform User Groups by default.

Selecting Events to remove or move to another Action

Reassign events between Actions

1. Expand the Events section in an Action.
2. Click Modify Events in the top right corner.
3. Select the events.
4. Click Move <number selected> Events.
5. Select a destination from the available list of Actions.
6. Enter the reason for relocating the events.
7. Click Move Events.

Moving Integration Events from one Action to another

Suppress or Drop Events from Job Results

Events that are suppressed are still associated with the Job with the record being maintained in the database. Events that are dropped are removed from the database so specific event information will not be available.

1. Expand the Events section in an Action.
2. Click Modify Events.
3. Select the events.
4. Click Suppress Events or Drop Events.
5. Click OK when prompted. The events are moved from the Events to the appropriate tab in the Suppressed and Dropped Events table, as shown here.

   Suppressed and Dropped Events

If there are events you are suppressing or dropping from more than one Job, you may want to create an event filter rule instead. For full details on Event filter Rules, see Event Filter Rules.