HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

• SNMP trap settings
• Status change event settings
Automatic event handling
Automatic event handling enables you to define an action that HP SIM performs when an event is received.
Users who want to access this feature must have administrative rights .
The following options are available under Automatic Event Handling:
• New Task. Creates new Automatic Event Handling tasks.
• Manage Tasks. Manages existing Automatic Event Handling tasks.
• Configure e-mail settings. Sends e-mails to alert users about problems. Ask your e-mail administrator
to verify whether you need the following information:
• SMTP host name of the outgoing mail server, such as mail.company.com. This server receives
the mail messages from HP SIM and begins routing them to the recipient.
• The name of the management server e-mail address. This address appears in the From field of
any e-mail sent from HP SIM. The user can be a system name. Enter the full domain address, in
the form [e-mail], as the sender.
NOTE: Some e-mail systems require a valid From user before they accept the message. HP suggests
that a valid e-mail account be used for this purpose.
• Configure modem settings (Windows only) Configures modem settings and is available to users
with administrative rights.
Set up a modem to use for alphanumeric paging. Before you can send a page from the HP SIM server,
set up the modem on the server. Be sure you know the COM port used by the modem to send the page
to set up the modem in HP SIM.
Access the Automatic Event Handling page to edit or delete an existing rule by clicking Automatic Event
Handling in the Do this now to finish the installation section of the HP SIM introductory page.
Delete events
Deletes events from the database .
Events can be deleted from the event view page. See “Customizing event collections” for more information.
Event filter settings
Event filtering 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. See “Managing MIBs” for information about compiling MIBs.
Options for filtering events
Events are registered or unregistered. Registered events are SNMP traps that are recognized by HP SIM
from discovered systems. Unregistered events are traps from systems discovered whose system information
is not part of the HP SIM MIBs database. Only registered events have a severity level. See “Event severity
types” for information about event severity types.
You can specify IP ranges for accepting or discarding traps. Enter one system or range per line, or separate
the ranges and systems with a semicolon (;).
You can also filter traps using SNMP Extensions.
SNMP trap settings
This feature is available to users with administrative rights and is used to view or edit trap details for a
registered MIB.
542 Administering systems and events