HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

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 format that sends a message to the recipients with the same
information and format as a pager message.
• HTML. An e-mail message format that sends a message to the recipients that looks like the
HTML Event Details page.
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)
• Chinese (GB18030)
• Chinese (Big5)
• Korean (EUC-KR)
• Run custom tool
Select a custom tool from the Name dropdown list. Custom tools are created under the
Tools→Custom Tools→New Custom Tool option, and then select CMS tool.
• Assign
Enter the name of the person to whom to assign the task. The event is assigned to this user when
received. Setting this field allows you to do searches assigned to this person.
• Forward as SNMP trap
Enter a system name or IP address in the Name or IP field, and then click >> to add it to the Trap
recipients box.
Click Delete if you want to delete a recipient after selecting the name in the Trap recipients box.
Use the up and down arrows to scroll to the recipient to delete.
• Write to system log
On Windows NT and Windows XP systems, the event details are written to the Application Log,
and the Source column of the Event Log is listed as HP SIM for the logged event. On Linux and
HP-UX systems, the event details are logged to the system log, which is usually located in the file
/var/log/messages on Linux and in /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log on HP-UX.
• Clear event
Received events are cleared based on the criteria selected when task executes.
6. After you have made your selections, click Next. The Select time filter page appears.
7. Select the Use time filter checkbox if you want to use time filters, and then select an option from the
dropdown list.
a. Click Manage Filters if you want to set user-defined filters.
b. Select the View time filter checkbox. A time filter window appears, showing the times selected.
If the Use time filter checkbox is not selected, actions are triggered whenever the events matching
the selected criteria are received.
If the Use time filter checkbox is selected, actions are triggered only when they occur during the
days and times specified by the selected time filter.
c. When you have entered the information, click Next to continue with the next step. The Review
summary page appears. The task name, owner, time filters, event collections, system collections,
and actions information is displayed. If a paging or e-mail option was selected, the modem and
e-mail settings are displayed, along with buttons to change the settings.
46 Configuring HP SIM using the Options menu