Instruction Manual

• Event filter settings
• SNMP trap settings
• Status change event settings
Automatic event handling
Automatic event handling enables you to define an action that HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) performs
when an event is received. Users who want to access this feature require full configuration rights .
Four options are available under Automatic Event Handling:
• New Task. Used to create new Automatic Event Handling tasks.
• Manage Tasks. Used to manage existing Automatic Event Handling tasks.
• Configure e-mail settings. Used to send e-mails to alert users of problems. Because mail systems
differ in their requirements, ask your e-mail administrator to verify whether you need the following
information:
• SMTP host name of the outgoing mail server, such as mail.company.com . This server receives the
mail messages from HP SIM and begins routing it to the recipient.
• The name of the management server e-mail address. This address appears in the From field of
any e-mail sent from HP SIM. The user can be a system name. Enter the full domain address in the
form, [e-mail], as the sender.
NOTE: Some e-mail systems require a valid From user before they accept the message. HP suggests
that a valid e-mail account be used for this purpose.
• Configure modem settings (Windows only). This feature is available to users with full configuration
rights.
Set up a modem to use for alphanumeric paging. Before you can send a page from the HP SIM server,
set up the modem on the server. Be sure you know the COM port used by the modem to send the page
to set up the modem in HP SIM.
Access the Automatic Event Handling page to edit or delete an existing rule by clicking Automatic Event
Handling in the Do this now to finish the installation section of the HP SIM introductory page.
Delete events
This task is used to delete tasks from the database .
NOTE: Events can be deleted from the event view page. See “Customizing event collections” for more
information.
Event filter settings
Event filtering is a way to filter SNMP traps you receive from discovered systems . The default setting is to
accept all registered SNMP traps from all discovered systems. You can specify the severity of the traps you
want to see and use the IP address ranges to create a subset of systems whose traps you can receive or
ignore. For example, you can use event filtering to ignore informational traps. This feature is available to
users with full configuration rights. See “Managing MIBs” for information on compiling MIBs.
Options for filtering events
Events are registered or unregistered. Registered events are SNMP traps that are recognized by HP SIM
from systems that have been discovered. Unregistered events are traps from systems that were discovered
but whose system information is not part of the HP SIM MIBs database. Only registered events have a severity
level. See “Event severity types” for information on event severity types.
You can specify IP ranges for accepting or discarding traps. Enter one system or range per line, or separate
the ranges and systems with a semicolon (;).
You can also filter traps using SNMP Extensions.
466 Administering systems and events