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Definition of rule

A set of conditions and associated actions that may be applied to certain tasks. For example, an email rule might stipulate that all messages from a particular sender be placed into a specific folder.

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Other definitions of rule

In Operations Manager, an element in a management pack that defines the events and performance data to collect from computers, and what to do with the information after it is collected. A rule cannot set a health state.

Computer Science

A condition-action pair that prescribes the action taken when the condition is met.

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In Best Practices Analyzer, a recommended configuration, performance, security, or operations standard by which a role is evaluated during a BPA scan. BPA works by measuring a role’s compliance with best practice rules in eight different categories of a role’s effectiveness, trustworthiness, and reliability.

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