HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 58)

Where quanit1 is the system name.
Example - Creating a task to send an e-mail when a system reaches a
critical state
The following instructions set up an automatic event handling task to be run when a discovered
system goes to a
Critical status .
Procedure 11 Creating a task to send an e-mail when a system reaches a critical state
1. In the Search panel, click Advanced Search. The Advanced Search page appears.
2. Select events from the Search for dropdown list.
3. From the first selection box ( criteria selection), select severity from the dropdown list.
4. From the second selection box (comparison selection), select is from the dropdown list.
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 Collection 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.
11. To configure Systems Insight Manager to send an e-mail, select Options
→Events→Automatic
Event Handling
→E-mail Settings. The E-mail Settings page appears.
12. Specify the SMTP host in the SMTP Host box.
13. Specify the e-mail address that the management server uses when sending e-mail notifications
in the Sender's Email Address box.
14. To authenticate your SMTP server, select the Server Requires Authentication checkbox.
15. Specify the account name in Account name box.
16. Specify the password in the Password box.
17. Click OK to save changes.
18. To configure status change events, select Options
→Events→Status Change Event Settings. The
Status Change Event Settings page appears.
19. Select Enable creation of system status change events. This option sends a system unreachable
event whenever a system cannot be reached by a ping through the Hardware Status Polling
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