HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 59)

task. Enabling this option creates a system reachable event whenever the system is reachable
again.
20. Click OK to apply changes.
21. To create the task, select Options
→Events→Automatic Event Handling→New Task. The
Automatic Event Handling - New Task page appears.
22. 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 .
23. Click Next. The Step 2, Select event collection page appears.
24. Select the Critical Events collection from the dropdown list.
25. Click Next. The Select system collection page appears. Do not select a system collection.
26. Click Next. The Select action page appears.
27. Select Send e-mail.
a. In the To field, enter the list of e-mail addresses that should receive the notification.
b. In the CC field, enter any e-mail address that should receive a copy of the e-mail,
separating each with a comma.
c. In the Subject field, enter a note describing the subject of the e-mail.
d. In the Message Format field, select from the following formats based on the encoding
preference of the recipient:
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Standard. This default message format sends a text e-mail message to the recipients.
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Pager/SMS. An e-mail message formatted with the same information and format as
a pager message is sent to the recipients.
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HTML. An e-mail message that looks like the HTML Event Details page is sent to the
recipients.
e. In the Encoding field, select from the following formats:
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Western European (ISO-8859-1)
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Unicode (UTF-8)
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Japanese (ISO-2022-JP)
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Japanese (Shift_JIS)
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Japanese (EUC-JP)
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S-Chinese (GB18030)
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T-Chinese (Big5)
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Korean (EUC-KR)
28. Click Next. The Step 4, Select time filter page appears.
29. 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.
30. Click Next. The Step 5, Review summary page appears. The Task name, the selected event
collection, the events, system criteria, and Action(s) information appear.
31. If you want to edit the e-mail selections, click Edit e-mail Settings to edit the SMTP settings.
32. Click Finish to create the new task.
Example - Creating a task to delete all cleared events
The following example describes how to create a task to delete all cleared server events from the
Systems Insight Manager database. This task is useful to include in your management portfolio
because deleting cleared events on a regular basis empties the database of unnecessary entries
and improves system performance.
Example - Creating a task to delete all cleared events 59