HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 69)

13 Event management
Events are typically sent to the CMS from agents running on the managed systems. However, some
events are generated directly from the CMS itself. Managed systems must be configured to send
events to the CMS. After the CMS receives the event, if it passes the filters, any actions configured
to happen upon its receipt are run, and the event is stored in the HP SIM database for later viewing.
The event list page is the view for an event collection and lists of events that meet common criteria.
From this page, you can clear, delete, and assign events, enter comments on the event, and view
printable reports. To access the event list page, select an event collection from the System and
Event Collections
panel.
Monitoring events in HP SIM includes the following tasks:
• Automatic Event Handling Enables you to manage automatic event handling tasks, create
new automatic event handling tasks, and configure e-mail and modem settings.
• Clearing Events Enables you to clear events. Select Options
→Events→Clear Events.
Select the target events to clear and click Clear.
Cleared events remain in the HP SIM database, but no longer contribute to the status icon
reported in the System Status panel.
• Deleting Events Enables you to delete events from the database.
Select Options
→Events→Delete Events. Select the events to delete and click Delete. The
events are deleted from the database This tool can be scheduled to run on a regular basis.
For more information, see
Appendix E “Default system tasks” .
NOTE: You can also delete events from the event view page.
Event management configuration
The following menu options are used to configure event management:
• Event Filter Settings Enables you to filter SNMP traps you receive from discovered systems .
The default setting is to accept all registered SNMP traps from all discovered systems. You
can specify the severity of the traps you want to see and use the IP address ranges to create
a subset of systems whose traps you can receive or ignore. For example, you can use event
filtering to ignore informational traps. This feature is available to users with administrative
rights.
To access Event Filter Settings, select Options
→Events→Event Filter Settings.
• SNMP Trap Settings Enables you to tailor trap messages to your specific network needs.
Trap messages can be cryptic, poorly written, and incomprehensible. You can modify the
Management Information Base (MIB) information in the database representation. You can
also modify a .cfg file of the MIB. HP recommends that you never modify an actual MIB. To
access SNMP trap settings, select Options
→Events→SNMP Trap Settings.
SNMP trap settings are available to users with administrative rights and are used to view or
edit trap details for a registered MIB.
• Status Change Event Settings Enables you to control if a status change event is generated
when health status changes. To access, select Options
→Events→Status Change Event
Settings .
• Subscribing to WBEM Events Enables you to subscribe to WBEM events. Select
Options
→Events→Subscribe to WBEM Events.
• Unsubscribing to WBEM Events Enables you to unsubscribe to WBEM events. Select
Options
→Events→Unsubscribe to WBEM Events.
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