How to suppress alarms with specific phrases (4375227)

How to suppress alarms with specific phrases

When trying to suppress alarms for 'SQL Agent - Jobs Failed', the alarm isn't triggered when the job category is one of
REPL-Distribution
REPL-LogReader
REPL-Merge
REPL-Snapshot
or REPL-QueueReader

These generate alerts via the
“Replication - Distribution Agent Failure”,
“Replication - Log Reader Agent Failure”,
“Replication - Merge Agent Failure”,
“Replication - Queue Reader Agent Failure”
or “Replication - Snapshot Agent Failure”.

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Please try the following steps: 

• Go to Configure | Alarm Actions | New
• Select the "The alarm is...." | On the Rule Description below click on "Alarms" | Select SQL Server | Under  that  select  "The alarm you want to edit" | Click OK  
• Select the "Details Contain....." | On the Rule Description below click on "Following Phases" | Add phrases | Click OK
• On the Right Hand side select "Suppress the alarm"
• Add the desired parameters you want to suppress for this alert. For Example REPL-Distribution, REPL-LogReader, REPL-  Merge, REPL-Snapshot or REPL-QueueReader etc.

Unfortunately we do not have the exact settings in alarm actions to suppress the alerts, but you can add phrases for which Spotlight will suppress the alarms.