HP Storage Essentials V5.1 User Guide First Edition (T4283-96026, August 2006)

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12 Event Management
This chapter describes the following:
• ”About Event Manager” on page 453
• ”Viewing Event Details” on page 457
• ”Clearing Events” on page 458
• ”Configuring the Clearing of Events” on page 459
• ”Configuring the Deletion of Events” on page 460
• ”Deleting Events” on page 460
• ”Sorting Events” on page 460
• ”Changing the CLARiiON Event Polling Interval” on page 461
• ”Brocade Events” on page 462
• ”Filtering Events” on page 464
• ”Enabling the Rank Column in Event Manager” on page 470
About Event Manager
Event Manager lets you view, clear, sort and filter events from managed elements. An event can be
anything that occurs on the element, such as a device connected to a Brocade switch has gone
off-line. It provides the following information about the events:
• ID- The identification number assigned to the event
• Element - The source of the event. An element can be a switch, host, application, fabric or
anything else on the network.
• Severity - Provides the severity level
• Time - The time the event was recorded.
• Summary Text - A brief explanation of the event. When you click the summary text, the details
of the event are displayed.
• Element Type - Specifies whether the source of this event is an application, a host, etc.
• Rank - The cost implication. This column is hidden until you enable it, as described in ”Enabling
the Rank Column in Event Manager” on page 470.
The top of the Event Manager pane provides a subtotal of the severity of the events and the number
of events from the different element types. For example, in the following figure, zero critical events
were found, but 23 events were found to have a severity level of minor and one of “Warning”. The
definition for each severity level varies according to the type of element.
Figure 61 Event Manager Summary