HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

• Configuring status change events
• Deleting events
• Clearing events
• Viewing task definitions
Related topics
• Managing event handling tasks
• Creating a paging task based on e-mail notification
• Examples of e-mail pages
• Creating a paging task based on e-mail notification
About administering events
Managing events include the following tasks:
• Automatic event handling
• Delete events
• 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 administrative 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 them 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 administrative
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 events from the database .
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