HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

5. Enter the account user name and password in the corresponding boxes.
6. Note If you did not enter a valid Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) host, HP SIM notifies you that it
cannot send e-mail notifications. If you do not want to enter e-mail settings now, click OK, or to enter
a valid SMTP host, click Cancel.
If you are changing the e-mail settings from the Options→Events→Automatic Event Handling→Email
Settings page, click OK to save changes.
Setting up automatic event handling
Automatic event handling enables you to define an action that HP SIM performs when an event is received.
To set up automatic event handling:
1. Select Options→Events→Automatic Event Handling→New Task. The Automatic Event Handling
- New Task page appears.
2. Enter a name in the Task name field, or accept the default, and then click Next. The Select event
collection page appears.
3. Select one of the following:
a. Use this event collection
i. Select an event collection from the dropdown list.
Note: Select an event collection. The event collection is a collection that is defined by event
attributes. The event collection might be a combination collection containing system information.
If the collection contains system information, step iii will not appear. If you select an event
collection that contains additional event collections, you will receive an error message.
ii. (Optional) Click View Definition to view the collection attributes that define the event collection.
Note: This field is displayed if you selected an existing private or shared event collection. If
the collection was created using the Automatic Event Handling feature that enables you to
select event and system information, this will not be displayed.
iii. Click Next. The Select system collection page appears. If the event collection contains
system information, the select system collection process will not be displayed. Instead, the
Select actions page will appear.
b. Use event attributes that I will specify
i. Click Next. The Select events page appears.
ii. Select 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.
c. Click Next. The Select system collection page appears.
44 Configuring HP SIM using the Options menu