HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

Related procedures
• Performing an advanced search for events
• Creating a task
• Scheduling a task
• Deleting events
• Saving collections
• Running a scheduled task
Related topic
▲ Navigating the tree view page
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.
Creating the collection
1. Select Search panel, and then 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), click the down arrow, and then select severity.
4. From the second selection box (comparison selection), click the down arrow, and then select is.
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 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.
Configuring HP SIM to send e-mail
1. Select Options→Events→Automatic Event Handling→E-mail Settings. The E-mail Settings page
appears.
2. Specify the SMTP host in the SMTP Host box.
3. Specify the e-mail address that the management server uses when sending e-mail notifications in the
Sender's Email Address box.
4. To authenticate your SMTP server, select the Server Requires Authentication checkbox.
5. Specify the account name in Account name box.
6. Specify the password in the Password box.
7. Click OK to save changes.
Configuring status change events
1. Select Options→Events→Status Change Event Settings. The Status Change Event Settings
page appears.
2. 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 task.
Enabling this option creates a system reachable event whenever the system is reachable again.
3. Click OK to apply changes.
Creating the task
1. Select Options→Events→Automatic Event Handling→New Task. The Automatic Event Handling
- New Task page appears.
2. Select with an existing event collection.
568 Administering systems and events