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HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide

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Creating a Task to Send an E-mail When a System Reaches a Critical State

»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
»Examples of Event Tasks
»Creating a Paging Task Based on E-mail Notification
»Creating a Task to Delete All Cleared Events
»Creating a Task to Delete Events Older than Thirty Days
Creating a Task to Send an E-mail When a System Reaches a Critical State
»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
» Creating the Collection
» Configuring HP SIM to Send E-mail
» Configuring Status Change Events
» Creating the Task
» Related Procedures

The following instructions set up an automatic event handling task to be run when a discovered system goes to a Critical status.

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

Creating the Collection

  1. Select Search panel, click Advanced Search. The Advanced Search page is displayed.

  2. Select events from the Search for dropdown list.

  3. From the first selection box (criteria selection), click the down arrow, and select severity.

  4. From the second selection box (comparison selection), click the down arrow, and select is.

  5. In the third selection box (value selection), the available values for a given criteria or comparison combination are given. Select Critical.

  6. (Optional) Click [View] to view the search results.

  7. Click [Save As] to save the event collection.

  8. In the Name field, enter a name for the collection, such as Critical Events.

  9. Under Place in Folder, select to save the collection in Events by Severity to have it available to other users.

  10. Click [OK] to save the collection, or click [Cancel] to cancel the save operation.

Configuring HP SIM to Send E-mail

  1. Select OptionsEventsAutomatic Event HandlingE-mail Settings. The E-mail Settings page appears.

  2. Specify the SMTP host in the SMTP Host box.

  3. Specify the e-mail address that the management server uses when sending e-mail notifications in the Sender's Email Address box.

  4. To authenticate your SMTP server, select the Server Requires Authentication checkbox.

  5. Specify the account name in Account name box.

  6. Specify the password in the Password box.

  7. Click [OK] to save changes.

Configuring Status Change Events

  1. Select OptionsEventsStatus Change Event Settings. The Status Change Event Settings page appears.

  2. Select Enable creation of system status change events. This option causes a system unreachable event to be sent whenever a system cannot be reached by a ping through the Hardware Status Polling task. Enabling this option causes a system reachable event to be created whenever the system is reachable again.

  3. Click [OK] to apply changes.

Creating the Task

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

  2. Select with an existing event collection. There are five steps to define a the new task.

  3. After selecting the option to use an existing event collection, there are five steps to define a new task. Step 1 Select name, is highlighted. Enter a name for the task in the Task name box, such as Send E-mail for Critical Status.

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

  5. Select the Critical Events collection from the dropdown list.

  6. Select 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)

  7. After you have made your selections, click [Next].

  8. Step 4, Select time filter appears. Check the Use time filterbox if you want to use time filters, and select an option from the dropdown list.

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

  9. When you have entered the information, click [Next].

  10. After clicking [Next], Step 5, Review summary page appears. The Task name, the selected event collection, the events, system criteria, and Action(s) information are displayed. If you need to edit the e-mail selections, click [Edit e-mail Settings] to edit the SMTP settings. Refer to Events - Configuring SNMP Traps for more information.

  11. Click [Finish] to create the new task.

Related Procedures

» Events - Managing Event Handling Tasks
» Events - Configuring E-mail Settings
» Events - Configuring Event Filters