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HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide

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Creating an Automatic Event Handling Task with Selected Event and System Attributes

»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
» Related Procedures
» Related Topics

Perform the following procedure to create a new automatic event handling task to define a response to a specific event.

There is a selection limit of 100 servers for automatic event handling tasks.

If you create an automatic event handling task using the with event and system attributes that I will specify option and use the mxtask -lf command to create an XML file that can be used to create another task, the task and collection that are associated with the task are placed in the XML file. If you delete the task, the collection is deleted along with the task. Therefore, the XML file can no longer be used to create a new task with the collection that is referenced in the XML file. Refer to the HP Systems Insight Manager Command Line Interface Reference Guide for more information.

To define a new task:

  1. Select OptionsEventsAutomatic Event HandlingNew Task. The Automatic Event Handling - New Task page appears.

  2. Select with event and system attributes that I will specify.

  3. There are six steps to complete to define a new task. Under Step 1 of 5, Select name is selected. Enter a name for the task in the Task name field.

  4. Click [Next]. The step 2, Select existing event collection page appears.

  5. Select the event search criteria for defining the task:

    • List criteria

    • Comparison option

    • Value for the criteria or comparison options selected

    To add additional search criteria, click [Add].

    Refer to Searching for Systems and Events - Performing an Advanced Search for Events for more information on event searches.

  6. When you have entered the information, click [Next] to continue with the next step or [Previous] to return to the previous step. The step 3, Select systems appears .

  7. Select the system criteria for defining the task.from the dropdown lists:

    • List criteria

    • Comparison option

    • Value for the criteria or comparison options selected

  8. To add additional criteria, click [Add]. Refer to Searching for Systems and Events - Performing an Advanced Search for Events.

  9. When you have entered the information, click [Next] to continue with the next step or click [Previous] to return to the previous step. Step 4, Select actions page appears.

  10. Select from the following:

    • Send page (Windows only)

      Add users to be paged from the dropdown list of users by clicking >>. Click << to remove users from the list of users to be paged. The pager number for an HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) user is set on the Users and Authorizations page. Refer to Users and User Groups - Creating New Users for more information. If a user name in the Users list is inactive, the pager information for the user has not been configured. You can add the user to the list of users to be paged, but pager messages are not sent to this user until the pager information is provided on the Users and Authorizations page.

    • Send e-mail

      In the To field, enter the list of e-mail addresses that should receive the notification, separating each entry with a comma.

      In the CC field, enter any e-mail address that should receive a copy of the e-mail, separating each entry with a comma.

      In the Subject field, enter a note describing the subject of the e-mail.

      In the Message Format field, select from the following formats based on the encoding preference of the recipient:

      • Standard. A default message format that sends a text e-mail message to the recipients

      • Pager/SMS. An e-mail message formatted with the same information and format as a pager message is sent to the recipients

      • HTML. An e-mail message that looks like the HTML Event Details page is sent to the recipients

      In the Encoding field, select from the following formats:

      • Western European (ISO-8859-1)

      • Unicode (UTF-8)

      • Japanese (ISO-2022-JP)

      • Japanese (Shift_JIS)

      • Japanese (EUC-JP)

    • Run custom command

      Select a custom command from the Name dropdown list. Custom commands are created under the ToolsCustom CommandsNew Custom Command option. Refer to Custom Commands - Creating a New Custom Command for more information.

    • Assign

      Enter the name of the person to whom to assign the task. The event is assigned to this user when received.

    • Forward as SNMP trap

      Enter a system name or IP address in the Name or IP text field, and click >> to add it to the Trap recipients box.

      Click [Delete] if you want to delete a recipient after first highlighting the name in the Trap recipients box. Use the up and down arrows to scroll to the recipient to delete.

    • Write to system log

      On Windows NT and Windows XP systems, the event details are written to the Application Log, and the Source column of the Event Log is listed as HP SIM for the logged event. On Linux and HP-UX systems, the event details are logged to the system log, which is usually located in the file /var/log/messages on Linux and in /var/adm/sysLog/syslog.log on HP-UX.

    • Clear event

      Received events are cleared based on the criteria selected when task executes.

  11. After you have made your selections, click [Next] to continue with the next step or [Previous] to return to the previous step. The step 5, Select time filter appears.

  12. Select the box if you want to use time filters, and select an option from the dropdown list.

    1. Click [Manage Filters] if you want to set user defined filters. Refer to Managing with Tasks - Applying a Time Filter for more information.

    2. Select the View time filter box. A time filter popup window appears, showing the times selected.

      If the Use time filter checkbox is not selected, actions are triggered whenever the events matching the selected criteria are received.

      If the Use time filter checkbox is selected, actions are triggered only when they occur during the days and times specified by the selected time filter.

    3. When you have entered the information, click [Next] to continue with the next step or [Previous] to return to the previous step. Step 6, Review summary page appears. The Task name, the events, system criteria, and Action(s) information are displayed. If a paging or e-mail option was selected, the modem and e-mail settings are displayed, along with buttons to change the settings.

  13. Click [Edit Modem Settings] to edit the modem settings, or click [Edit e-mail Settings] to edit the SMTP settings. Refer to Events - Configuring Modem Settings or Events - Configuring SNMP Traps for more information.

    Note: The event and system search criteria are displayed at the bottom of the page. This information can be extremely complex and long. Therefore, you might need to scroll down to view all of the criteria.

  14. Click [Finish] to create the new task, or click [Previous] to go back to the previous step.

Related Procedures

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

Related Topics

» Administering Systems and Events - Events
» Events - About Administering Events
» Events - Creating a New Automatic Event Handling Task with Specified Events and System Attributes
» Events - Examples of E-mail Pages