HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

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 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
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.
NOTE: DMI Status polling is supported only on Windows Central Management Servers and target systems.
There are two default polling tasks:
• Software Status Polling. Use Software Status Polling to determine software version update status. This
task is set to run every seven days, on Wednesday at midnight, by default. You can edit the task and
run it at any time. This task performs the following functions:
• Retrieves software and firmware inventory from systems
• Determines the software and firmware update status
• Sorts versions in the database
To access Software Status Polling, select Options→Status Polling→Software Status Polling.
• Hardware Status Polling. Used to track system status. There are two types of Hardware Status Polling
Tasks:
• Hardware Status Polling for Non servers. Used to collect status information for target systems
that are not of a server, cluster, or management processor type. This task is configured to poll
every 10 minutes and at startup by default and does not send status change events.
• Hardware Status Polling for Servers . Used to collect status information for SNMP systems of
type server, cluster, or management processor. This task is configured to poll every five minutes
Status polling 569