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

Searching for the subscribed WBEM events
Evweb enables you to search the Event archive for subscribed WBEM events. The Evweb GUI
provides a link, EMT Search, using which you can obtain error, cause, and recommended solutions
for errors that may be generated on an HP-UX 11i v3 system. For more information about how to
use EMT to search for WBEM events, see “Querying the Common Error Repository” (page 72).
Filtering WBEM events using the GUI
The Event Viewer GUI enables you to filter the WBEM events based on their severity level.
To filter the WBEM events based on their severity, complete the following steps:
1. Repeat steps 1-5 from “Launching Evweb for viewing WBEM indications” (page 61).
2. Select Critical to search for critical events.
Similarly, select Major, Minor, Warning, Information, Other, Normal, or Unknown to search
for the respective WBEM events.
3. To view all events, select All Events.
For more information on performing a quick search of WBEM events using the HP SMH GUI, select
Help on the action pane of the List Events page.
Searching for the subscribed WBEM events using the GUI
To perform an advanced search of the WBEM events, complete the following steps:
1. Repeat steps 1-5 from “Launching Evweb for viewing WBEM indications” (page 61).
2. Select advanced search on the right pane of the Event Viewer page.
The advanced search page is displayed.
3. Provide appropriate information in the text boxes and fields present in the advanced search
page.
4. Click search on the advanced search page.
Based on the search criteria, the WBEM events are displayed in a tabular format in the Event
viewer page.
For more information on searching for the WBEM events using the HP SMH GUI, select Help on
the action pane of the advanced search page.
Searching for the subscribed WBEM events using the CLI
To search WBEM events using the CLI, enter the following command at the HP-UX prompt:
# evweb eventviewer -L
Where:
-L is an option used to list all the WBEM events.
A list of WBEM events is displayed.
You can also use the following switches with the -L option:
• -a(<number for age>(:)(yy|mm|dd|hh)
• -b [history|current]
• -e [eq|ne|le|ge|bw][:] <severity level1>[,<severity level2>]
• -h
• -i <EventID>
• -o(<offset number>) -c(<count of events>)
• -r[is|be|en|co][:](<string to be searched>)
• -s[asc|desc] (<summary list column name>)
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