There are two types of Rule Sets:

• Enterprise: Used to implement all operational practices within your IT organization. All supported actions are available for this type of rule set. However, because this type of rule set can perform all actions, there are restrictions as to who can create an enterprise rule set.

  In order to create or edit an enterprise rule set, an administrator must have been granted the Create Enterprise Rule Set privilege on the Enterprise Rule Set resource. However, if the rule set owner loses the Create Enterprise Rule Set system privilege at some future time, he can still edit or delete the rule set. Super Administrators can edit or delete any rule set. If the originator of the rule set wants other administrators to edit the rule set, he will need to share access in order to work collaboratively by adding co-authors. Enterprise rule sets are visible to all administrators.

• Private: Used when an administrator wants to be notified about something he is monitoring but not as a standard business practice. The only action a private rule set can perform is to send email to the rule set owner. Any administrator can create a private rule set regardless of whether they have been granted the Create Enterprise Rule Set resource privilege. Oracle recommends that private rule sets be used only in rare or exceptional situations.

When a rule set performs actions, the privileges of the rule set creator are used. For example, a rule set owner/creator must have at least View Target privilege in order to receive notifications and at least Manage Target Events privilege in order to update the incident. The exception is when a rule set sends a notification. In this case, the privileges of the user it is sent to is used.