HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager Software - Manual (Page 513)

Storage Essentials 5.1 User Guide 481
• Improve usability - Although all event notification is theoretically useful, some events may have
little information value. For example, Log In/Log out events for Storage Essentials may be of little
interest to an administrator who is concerned with primarily important and critical SAN events.
The administrator can filter out these “informational” events.
• Increased system performance - Storage Essentials can generate a large number of events
that appear in HP SIM. Certain events can be filtered out in order to limit the communication
traffic.
Events can be filtered based on the following:
• Event severity - Use the <event-filter-severity> tag to filter out events by severity.
• Element type - Use the <event-filter-element-type> tag to filter out events by element
type.
• Element name - Use the <event-filter-name> tag to filter out events by element name.
It is possible to specify multiple filter criteria in which case the resulting filter is a disjunction (logical
OR) of the filter conditions. For example, the following filter excludes events from hosts or those from
all element types with INFORMATIONAL severity from being forwarded from Storage Essentials to
HP SIM:
<HP-config>
<event-filter-severity>INFORMATIONAL</event-filter-severity>
<event-filter-element-type>HOST</event-filter-element-type>
</HP-config>
To filter events forwarded to HP SIM:
1. Go to the %JBOSS4_DIST%\server\appiq\config directory on the management server.
2. Create a file named hp-event-config.xml in the
%JBOSS4_DIST%\server\appiq\config directory.
3. Open the hp-event-config.xml file in Notepad.
4. Add the following to the file:
<HP-config>
</HP-config>
5. Your filter tags will go between the <HP-config> tags, as shown in the following example:
<HP-config>
<event-filter-severity>INFORMATIONAL</event-filter-severity>
<event-filter-element-type>HOST</event-filter-element-type>
</HP-config>
6. To filter events by severity, use the <event-filter-severity> tag. For example, to prevent
informational events from being forwarded to HP SIM, enter the following between the
<HP-config> tags:
<event-filter-severity>INFORMATIONAL</event-filter-severity>
You can also filter out the following event severities:
• UNKNOWN
• CRITICAL
• MAJOR