HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

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. This default message format 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)
• Chinese (GB18030)
• Chinese (Big5)
• Korean (EUC-KR)
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 then 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 appear.
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. They 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
degrades. You can customize polling tasks for specific systems to run at scheduled times. You can also create
new polling tasks with different system or event lists to match your specific requirements.
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