HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

4. From the second selection box (comparison selection), click the down arrow, and then select is.
5. In the third selection box (value selection), the available values for a given criteria or comparison
combination are given. Select Critical.
6. (Optional) Click View to view the search results.
7. Click Save As to save the event collection.
8. In the Name field, enter a name for the collection, such as Critical Events.
9. Under Place in Folder, select to save the collection in Events by Severity to have it available to other
users.
10. Click OK to save the collection, or click Cancel to cancel the save operation.
Configuring HP SIM to send e-mail
1. Select Options→Events→Automatic Event Handling→E-mail Settings. The E-mail Settings page
appears.
2. Specify the SMTP host in the SMTP Host box.
3. Specify the e-mail address that the management server uses when sending e-mail notifications in the
Sender's Email Address box.
4. To authenticate your SMTP server, select the Server Requires Authentication checkbox.
5. Specify the account name in Account name box.
6. Specify the password in the Password box.
7. Click OK to save changes.
Configuring status change events
1. Select Options→Events→Status Change Event Settings. The Status Change Event Settings
page appears.
2. Select Enable creation of system status change events. This option causes a system unreachable
event to be sent whenever a system cannot be reached by a ping through the Hardware Status Polling
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
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