HP SIM V5.1 User Guide (356920-009, January 2007)

task. Enabling this option causes a system reachable event to be created whenever the system is reachable
again.
3. Click OK to apply changes.
Creating the task
1. Select Options→Events→Automatic Event Handling→New Task. The Automatic Event Handling
- New Task page appears.
2. Select with an existing event collection.
3. On the Step 1, Select name page, enter a name for the task in the Task name box, such as Send
E-mail for Critical Status.
4. Click Next. The Step 2, Select existing event collection page appears.
5. Select the Critical Events collection from the dropdown list.
6. Select Send e-mail.
▲ In the To field, enter the list of e-mail addresses that should receive the notification.
In the CC field, enter any e-mail address that should receive a copy of the e-mail, separating each
with a comma.
In the Subject field, enter a note describing the subject of the e-mail.
In the Message Format field, select from the following formats based on the encoding preference
of the recipient:
• Standard. A default message format that sends a text e-mail message to the recipients
• Pager/SMS. An e-mail message formatted with the same information and format as a pager
message is sent to the recipients
• HTML. An e-mail message that looks like the HTML Event Details page is sent to the recipients
In the Encoding field, select from the following formats:
• Western European (ISO-8859-1)
• Unicode (UTF-8)
• Japanese (ISO-2022-JP)
• Japanese (Shift_JIS)
• Japanese (EUC-JP)
7. Click Next. The Step 4, Select time filter page appears.
8. Select the Use time filter box if you want to use time filters, and select an option from the dropdown
list.
Click Manage Filters if you want to set user defined filters. See “Applying a time filter” for more
information.
9. Click Next. The Step 5, Review summary page appears. The Task name, the selected event
collection, the events, system criteria, and Action(s) information are displayed.
10. If you want to edit the e-mail selections, click Edit e-mail Settings to edit the SMTP settings. See
“Configuring SNMP traps” for more information.
11. Click Finish to create the new task.
Related procedures
• Managing event handling tasks
• Configuring e-mail settings
• Configuring event filters for registered SNMP traps
Status polling
Polling tasks track system health status for systems in the system list. The provide a simple means of assessing
system health in the event that an SNMP trap or other event was not properly delivered to the management
console. Hardware status polling must occur continuously to determine when systems go offline or performance
Status polling 491