What Is the Automation Table?

The automation table enables you to respond automatically to messages and management services units (MSUs). This table contains statements that define actions that the NetView® program takes when it receives specific messages and MSUs. For example, you can issue a response in the form of a command, command list, or command processor.

You can also set attributes and processing options. For example, you can suppress, log, or route messages and block, record, or highlight MSUs.

The automation table also processes commands that are echoed to the screen, treating them as messages. To stop the automation table from processing commands, add a statement at the top of the table that ends processing if the message type is an asterisk (HDRMTYPE = '*') or another command-related message type.