HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

Copying automatic event handling tasks
1. Select Options→Events→Automatic Event Handling→Manage Task. The Automatic Event
Handling - Manage Tasks page appears.
2. Select the task to copy, and then click Copy. The Copy task section appears.
3. In the Task name field, enter a name for the new task.
4. Click OK. The task is copied with a new name and placed in the list of Automatic Event Handling tasks.
Related procedures
• Creating an automatic event handling task
• Editing automatic event handling tasks
• Viewing task definitions
• Viewing event task results
• Enabling or disabling automatic event handling tasks
• Deleting events
• Clearing events
• Configuring e-mail settings
• Configuring modem settings for paging
Related topics
• Events
• Examples of e-mail pages
Viewing task definitions
Complete the following procedure to view the entire task configuration for a selected task. These configuration
options were set when creating the task.
1. Select Options→Events→Automatic Event Handling→Manage Task. The Automatic Event
Handling - Manage Tasks page appears.
2. Select a task, and then click View Definition. The View Definition section appears, displaying the
following information:
• Task name The name given to the task when it was created
• Task owner The user that created the task
• Time filters The times that the task will run
• Event collection The event collection that was selected when the task was created
Note: This field is displayed if you selected an existing private or shared event collection. If the
collection was created using the Automatic Event Handling feature that enables you to select event
and system information, this will not be displayed.
• Events The event search criteria set for the task
• Systems The system collection selected for the task
• Action(s) The actions selected when the task was created, such as send e-mail and write to system
log
• E-mail settings The e-mail settings set when the task was created
See “Creating an automatic event handling task” for more information about each of the settings.
NOTE: If the task was created with no event or system information in the collection selected, the Events
or the Systems field will show None Defined. If you edit the task, you will be forced to select the event or
548 Administering systems and events