Creating an Event Notifications topic

A topic is needed to filter the incoming events from the Source. Each source is connected to a topic through a user-defined filter. Notifications that pass into a topic are pushed to all subscribed destinations. A topic can connect to multiple sources and has an independent filter for each source that is connected to it. Configure topics as needed and Event Notifications handles the routing and delivering of alerts reliably to the correct destinations.

Creating a topic

Select Topics in the Event Notifications console.
Click Create, and enter the following topic details:
- Name: enter a name for the topic.
- Description: add an optional description for the topic.
- Source: select a source from the list. Sources are of 3 types:
  - IBM Source
  - API Source
  - Periodic Timer Source
If your chosen source is an IBM Source:

Add the following rules to your topic:
- Event type: select event type from the list.
- Event subtype: select event sub type from the event sub type list.
- Severity: select severity from the severity list.
- Advanced conditions: Add custom conditions to your topics. See Advanced Filtering Conditions to learn more about adding advanced conditions to your topic.

If your chosen source is an API source, then you can add the "Advanced Conditions" rule to your topic.

If your chosen source is a Periodic Timer Source, then refer Periodic Timer for steps to set rules for your topic.

Step 2 created a topic, step 3 provisioned optional custom rules for the topic.

Click Add a condition.

If you do not select any rules, a default rule is added, which means all notifications route to the topic by default.
Click Create in the topic wizard.