Joe, thanks for such a quick response. We are running 12.4(24)T1 on most of our equipment. I guess my question is somewhat two-fold: 1)does eem queue policies to run if another policy is currently running, and 2)is there a way that we can limit this activity by timer

Using the example that I mentioned let's say that an event detector triggers a policy to run and then 10 seconds later the same event detector triggers the same policy to run again. We would prefer this policy to be limited to only running 1 time within a 60 second time frame.

No, the policies will queue up (you can see this with show event manager policy pending). You cannot control this based on time.

To solve your problem, you need to add code to your policies. I recommend using contexts to store the last execution time. For example:

set time [clock seconds]

context_save MYCTXT time

Then, at the top of your policy:

set now [clock seconds]

if { [catch {context_retrieve MYCTXT time} result] } {

set time $now

} else {

set time $result

}

if { [expr $now - $time] <= 60 } {

exit

}

Joe we appreciate your help. We will integrate this into the polices in question. Thanks again for all of your assistance.