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

HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide 351
Clearing Advance Filtering Options
You can clear the filtering set for advanced options, by clicking the Clear Data button under the
Advanced Options heading.
Specifying a Filter for Events Forwarded from Storage Essentials to HP SIM
Users can filter events forwarded from Storage Essentials to HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM).
Filtering events sent to HP SIM has the following advantages:
• Improved usability - Although all event notification is theoretically useful, some events may have
little information value. For example, Log In/Log out events for Storage Essentials may be of little
interest to an administrator who is concerned primarily with important and critical SAN events.
The administrator can filter out these “informational” events.
• Increased system performance - Storage Essentials can generate a large number of events that
appear in HP SIM. Certain events can be filtered out in order to limit the communication traffic.
Events can be filtered based on the following:
• Event severity - Use the <event-filter-severity> tag to filter out events by severity.
• Element type - Use the <event-filter-element-type> tag to filter out events by element
type.
• Element name - Use the <event-filter-element-name> tag to filter out events by element
name.
It is possible to specify multiple filter criteria, in which case the resulting filter is a disjunction (the
logical or) of the filter conditions. For example, the following filter excludes events from hosts or
events from all element types with INFORMATIONAL severity from being forwarded from Storage
Essentials to HP SIM:
<HP-config>
<event-filter-severity>INFORMATIONAL</event-filter-severity>
<event-filter-element-type>HOST</event-filter-element-type>
</HP-config>
To filter events forwarded to HP SIM:
1. Go to the %JBOSS4_DIST%\server\appiq\conf directory on the management server.
2. Create a file named hp-event-config.xml in the
%JBOSS4_DIST%\server\appiq\conf directory.
3. Open the hp-event-config.xml file in Notepad.
4. Add the following to the file:
<HP-config>
</HP-config>
Your filter tags will go between the <HP-config> tags, as shown in the following example:
<HP-config>
<event-filter-severity>INFORMATIONAL</event-filter-severity>
<event-filter-element-type>HOST</event-filter-element-type>
</HP-config>