HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

4. To filter target selections, complete the following.
a. Click Add Event Filter.
b. From the Add filters by selecting from dropdown box, select an event fiter. If you do not select
an event filter, an error message appears.
c. Click Apply to apply the filter to the target systems (or, click Cancel to cancel adding a filter). The
Filtered by table appears below the list of selected target systems.
Note: If the target selections are events instead of systems, the button changes to Add System
Filter and you can select from different system collections. Unlike event filters, you can select multiple
system filters.
5. To modify an event filter, click Modify Event Filter.
Note: If the filters are systems, you will see an Add System Filters and Remove Filters buttons. If
there is only one event filter, the Remove Filters button will simply remove the single event filter. If you
have more than one event filters, the Remove Filters button will open a sub-pane that you may select
the event filters to remove.
a. From the Add filters by selecting from dropdown box., select an event filter. If you do not select
an event filter, an error message appears.
b. Click Apply to change the event filter and apply the filter to the target systems, or click Cancel to
cancel editing the filter.
Note: If the target selections are events instead of systems, the button does not change to Modify
System Filter you will have the option to select either the Add System Filters or Remove Filters.
It is possible to have one or more system and event combination collections already selected. If
there are combination collections selected, they will provide filtering.
6. To remove a filter, select the filter(s) from the sub-pane that you wish to remove and click Remove
Filters.
7. Click Next and specify tool parameters. If the tool does not require parameters, Next is replaced with
Schedule and Run Now. The Schedule option is only present if the tool can be scheduled.
8. Select one of the following options:
• Click Previous to return to the previous screen.
• Click Schedule to schedule when the task should run. For more information about scheduling
options, see “Scheduling a task”.
• Click Run Now to run the task immediately.
NOTE: If multiple users are accessing a task simultaneously, the changes made by the last user who
edited the task are saved. For example, if User1 and User2 sign-in to HP SIM with administrative rights
and User1 is editing a task while User2 is deleting the task, when User1 tries to save the edited task a
message appears indicating that the task does not represent an object in the system and User1 cannot
save the edited task.
Command line interface
Use the mxexec command to execute tools immediately, or the mxtask command to schedule tasks for
later. Perform this task from the command line interface (CLI). For assistance with this command, see the
HP-UX or Linux manpage by entering man mxexec at the command line or see the Windows command
line help. For information about how to access a manpage, see “Using command line interface commands”.
Related procedure
▲ Bypassing target verification
Related topics
• Managing with tasks
• Navigating the All Scheduled Tasks page
282 Managing with tasks