HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide for Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition SRM Software (July 2008)

Event Management342
*This term does not appear in the event description, but is provided for clarity.
Supported Brocade Events
The Event Manager displays the following events from Brocade switches:
• RSCN events: Events about the state of the switch, such as it being offline.
• Fabric Access library events: Events about proxy switch health.
• Zoning events: Events about zoning, such as zone-related state change notification.
Filtering Events
This section contains the following topics:
• Setting up a filter, page 342
• Selecting a custom time period, page 344
• Resetting a filter, page 346
• Setting up advanced filtering, page 347
• Clearing Advance Filtering Options, page 350
• Specifying a Filter for Events Forwarded from Storage Essentials to HP SIM, page 350
Setting up a filter
The management server provides several types of event filters which lets you specify which events
you want Event Manager to display.
You can use all the event filters at once or you can use just one of them. You can filter events by:
• Time period
• Severity level
• Element type
• Summary text
• Element name
11 Major
EV_STATE_CHANGE
State changes such as: login,
logout, login failed,
configuration change, track
on/off, port up/down, fabric
segmentation, security
violations, zone change.
12 Major
EV_PLATFORM_CHANGE
The platform database has
changed.
Table 49 Brocade Switch Events (continued)
*Code Event
Severity
Level
*Name Description