HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

Assigning events to users
You must have administrative rights to assign events from shared collections. For users with operator and
user rights to assign events, they must have the Assign Events tool selected in their toolbox categories. See
“Editing toolboxes” for more information.
IMPORTANT: Assigning events to certain users, does not facilitate any tracking at all and the user is not
notified of the event.
CAUTION: If selected events have selected have previously been assigned, selecting a new assignee and
clicking OK overrides the previous assignment.
NOTE: A maximum of 50 characters can be entered in the assignee field.
To assign an event to a user:
1. On the event table view page, select the events you want to assign to a user.
2. Click Assign To. The Assign to section appears.
3. Select New assignee or Choose existing assignee. If you select Choose existing assignee, click
the down arrow, and then select an assignee from the dropdown list.
4. To update the database , click OK, or click Cancel.
Related procedures
• Clearing events from the collection
• Deleting events from the database
• Entering comments on events
• Printing an event collection view
• Customizing the event table view page
Related topics
• Navigating the event table view page
• Event table view page
Entering comments on events
Use the following procedure to add comments to events . You must have administrative rights to add comments
to events.
CAUTION: If you add comments to events that already have comments, the previous comments are replaced
with the new comments in the database .
NOTE: For users with operator and user rights to add comments to an event, they must have the Comment
Events tool selected in their toolbox categories. See “Editing toolboxes” for more information.
NOTE: The maximum number of characters allowed for comments is 1,000.
To add comments to an event:
1. On the event table view page, select the events for which you want to enter comments.
2. Click Enter Comments. The Enter Comments section is displayed.
3. Enter the comments.
4. To update the database, click OK, or to return to the event table view page, click Cancel.
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