Automating Failover Event Handling on Two HP Systems Insight Manager Servers White Paper 532451-002, February 2010

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Figure 2 Server B is
u
navailable
Both CMS have a full population of all devices in both territories, events from CMS A are active only
for A’s devices; likewise for B’s. All agents send events to both CMS. Events received by a CM
S for
devices in the other
’
s territory are ignored or purged until
the
partner CMS is determined to be
unavailable.
For more information on purging events, s
ee
Appendix
C
–
Purging unwanted events
.
Creating a Custom Events List
Yo
u must create a Custom Event List for the
events that you are interested
in handling. In this example,
the
custom list
is
called “MRO Events
,
” which
consists
of specific hardware
-
related events on specific
servers.
To create a custom collection or list:
1.
C
lick
Customize
. T
he Customize Collections screen appears.