Administrator's and User's Guide for SFM HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012

Creating an event subscription using the GUI
To create a new event subscription, complete the following steps:
1. Repeat steps 1-5 from “Launching Evweb for administration” (page 50).
2. Select Create subscription in the action pane on the top right corner of the Event subscription
administration page.
The Create subscription page is displayed.
3. Provide appropriate information in the fields present in the Create subscription page.
NOTE: It is mandatory to specify a unique name for creating an event subscription.
4. To view the command line equivalent of creating event subscriptions using GUI, click Preview
on the Create subscription page. This step is optional.
5. Select Create on the Create subscription page.
Evweb creates the event subscription and displays a confirmation message.
6. Click OK on the confirmation message window.
For more information on creating subscription using the HP SMH GUI, select Help on the action
pane of the Create subscription page.
Creating an event subscription using the CLI
To create an event subscription using the CLI, enter the following command at the HP-UX prompt:
# evweb subscribe -C -n <subscription name>
Where:
-C is an option used to create event subscriptions.
-n is a switch used to specify a name for an event subscriptions.
A message stating that the execution of the evweb subscribe command was successful is
displayed on the screen.
NOTE: The -n switch is mandatory.
You can also use the following switches with the -C option:
• (-e [eq|ne|le|ge|bw][:] <severity level1>[,<severity level2>])
• (-i <EventID>)
• (-v <event category name>)
• (-o <provider name>)
• (-s <syslog>)
• -r
For more information on creating event subscriptions using CLI, see evweb_subscribe(1).
Copying and creating a new event subscription using the GUI
You can reuse the existing subscriptions to create another subscription. To create an event
subscription by copying an existing event subscription, complete the following steps:
1. Repeat steps 1-5 from “Launching Evweb for administration” (page 50).
2. Select the event subscription you want to copy, from the event subscription table.
3. Select Copy and create subscription in the action pane on the top right corner of the Event
subscription administration page.
The Copy and create subscription page is displayed.
4. Modify the required fields.
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