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Creating an Automatic Event Handling Task with an Existing Event Collection

»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.

In previous version of HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM), there was a selection limit of 100 servers for automatic event handling tasks. With HP SIM 5.0, there is no longer a limitation.

To define a new task:

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

  2. Select with an existing event collection. The step 1 Select name appears.

  3. Enter a name for the task in the Task name box.

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

  5. Select the event collection from the dropdown list. This step enables you to select an event collection and its associated system collection. Click [View] to view a read-only view of the event and system collection criteria. Click [Previous] to return to the previous step, or click [Next] to continue with the next step. The step 3, Select actions page appears.

  6. Select actions for this task. 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 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.

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

  7. After you have made your selections, click [Next] to continue with the next step or [Previous] to return to the previous step. The step 4, Select time filter pages appears.

  8. Select the Use time filter 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. Click View time filter. 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. The step 5, Review summary page appears. The Task name, the selected event collection, 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.

  9. 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.

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

Related Procedures

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