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HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide

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About Administering Events

»Table of Contents
»Index
»Notices
»Introduction
»Product Overview
»Getting Started
»Discovery and Identification
»Users and Authorizations
»Networking and Security
»Monitoring Systems, Clusters, and Events
»Storage Integration
»Managing with Tasks
»Tools that Extend Management
»Partner Applications
»Reporting
»Administering Systems and Events
»Events
About Administering Events
»Creating a New Automatic Event Handling Task with Specified Events and System Attributes
»Managing Event Handling Tasks
»Creating an Automatic Event Handling Task with Selected Event and System Attributes
»Creating an Automatic Event Handling Task with an Existing Event Collection
»Editing Automatic Event Handling Tasks
»Copying Automatic Event Handling Tasks
»Viewing Task Definitions
»Viewing Event Task Results
»Enabling or Disabling Automatic Event Handling Tasks
»Configuring E-mail Settings
»Configuring Modem Settings
»Clearing Events
»Deleting Events
»Configuring Event Filters
»Configuring SNMP Traps
»Configuring Status Change Events
»WBEM Indications
»Subscribing to WBEM Indications
»Unsubscribing to WBEM Indications
»Examples of E-mail Pages
»Service Notification Events
»Examples of Event Tasks
»Status Polling
»WMI Mapper Proxy
»Protocols
»Data Collection
»System Properties
»Version Control Repository
»PMP Administrative Options
»Setting Up Managed Systems
»Managing SSH Keys
»Backing Up and Restoring the Database
»Configuring SSH Bypass Properties
»Audit Log
»Troubleshooting
»Reference Information
»Printable version
»Glossary
»Using Help
» Automatic Event Handling
» Delete Events
» Event Filter Settings
» SNMP Trap Settings
» Status Change Event Settings
» Related Procedures
» Related Topics

Administering events include the following:

Automatic Event Handling

Automatic Event Handling enables you to define an action that HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) performs when an event is received. Users who want to access this feature require full-configuration-rights.

Four options are available under Automatic Event Handling:

  • New Task. Used to create new Automatic Event Handling tasks.

  • Manage Tasks. Used to manage existing Automatic Event Handling tasks.

  • Configure e-mail settings. Used to send e-mails to alert users of problems. Because mail systems differ in their requirements, check with your e-mail administrator to verify whether you need the following information:

    • SMTP Host name of the outgoing mail server, such as mail.company.com. This server receives the mail messages from HP SIM and begins routing it to the recipient.

    • The name of the management server e-mail address. This address appears in the From field of any e-mail sent from HP SIM. The user can be a system name. Enter the full domain address in the form, server@domain.com, as the sender.

    Some e-mail systems require a valid From user before they accept the message. HP suggests that a valid e-mail account be used for this purpose.

  • Configure modem settings (Windows only). This feature is available to users with full-configuration-rights.

    Set up a modem to use for alphanumeric paging. Before you can send a page from the HP SIM server, set up the modem on the server. Be sure you know the COM port used by the modem to send the page to set up the modem in HP SIM.

Access the Automatic Event Handling page to edit or delete an existing rule by clicking Automatic Event Handling in the DO THIS NOW to finish the install section of the HP SIM introductory page.

Delete Events

This task is used to delete tasks from the database.

Events can be deleted from the event view page. Refer to Monitoring Systems, Clusters, and Events - Customizing Event Collections for more information.

Event Filter Settings

Event filtering is a way to filter SNMP traps you receive from discovered systems. The default setting is to accept all registered SNMP traps from all discovered systems. You can specify the severity of the traps you want to see and use the IP address ranges to create a subset of systems whose traps you can receive or ignore. For example, you can use event filtering to ignore informational traps. This feature is available to users with full-configuration-rights. Refer to Tools that Extend Management - Managing MIBs for information on compiling MIBs.

Options for Filtering Events

Events are registered or unregistered. Registered events are SNMP traps that are recognized by HP SIM from systems that have been discovered. Unregistered events are traps from systems that were discovered but whose system information is not part of the HP SIM MIBs database. Only registered events have a severity level. Refer to Event Table View Page - Event Severity Types for information on event severity types.

You can specify IP ranges for accepting or discarding traps. Enter one system or range per line, or separate the ranges and systems with a semicolon (;).

You can also filter traps using SNMP Extensions.

SNMP Trap Settings

This feature is available to users with full-configuration-rights and is used to view or edit trap details for a registered MIB.

SNMP traps enable you to tailor trap messages to your specific network needs. Trap messages can be cryptic, poorly written, and incomprehensible. You can modify the MIB information in the database representation. You can also modify a .cfg. file of the MIB. HP recommends that you never modify an actual MIB. Refer to Managing MIBs - Editing a MIB for more information on editing MIBs.

Status Change Event Settings

This page is used to configure the settings for sending status change events for systems when hardware status changes.

Related Procedures

» Events - Configuring E-mail Settings
» Events - Configuring Modem Settings
» Events - Creating an Automatic Event Handling Task with an Existing Event Collection
» Events - Creating an Automatic Event Handling Task with Selected Event and System Attributes
» Events - Managing Event Handling Tasks
» Events - Configuring Event Filters
» Events - Configuring SNMP Traps
» Events - Configuring Status Change Events

Related Topics

» Administering Systems and Events - Events
» Events - Examples of E-mail Pages
» Examples of Event Tasks - Creating a Paging Task Based on E-mail Notification