HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

• Status polling
• Managing system types
• Protocol functionality
Events
Managing events in HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) includes the following:
• Automatic Event Handling Enables you to manage automatic event handling tasks, create new
automatic event handling tasks, and configure e-mail and modem settings.
• Managing Tasks Enables you to view definitions, copy tasks, edit tasks, view task results, disable
or enable tasks, or delete existing Automatic Event Handling tasks. You can also create a new
Automatic Event Handling task. Select Options→Events→A utomatic Event Handling→Manage
Tasks.
See “Managing event handling tasks” for more information.
• Creating a New Task Enables you to create a new Automatic Event Handling task. Select
Options→Events→Automatic Event Handling→New Task.
• E-mail Settings Enables you to set up the various e-mail settings needed when sending an e-mail
because of an event action. You can access the E-mail Settings page using one of two methods:
• Select Options→Events→Automatic Event Handling→E-mail Settings.
• From the HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) introductory page, click e-mail in the Do
this now to finish the installation section.
E-mails are sent to alert users of problems. Because mail systems differ in their requirements, 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.
• Modem Settings This feature is available to users with administrative rights only and is available
for Windows systems only.
Set up a modem to use for alphanumeric paging. Before you 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.
You can access the Modem Settings for Paging page using one of two methods:
• Select Options→Events→Automatic Event Handling→Modem Settings.
• From the HP SIM introductory page, click paging in the Do this now to finish the
installation section.
• Clearing Events Select Options→Events→Clear Events. Select the target events to clear and click
Clear. See “Clearing events” for more information.
• Deleting Events This option is used to delete events from the database .
NOTE: Events can be deleted from the event view page. See “Customizing event collections” for more
information.
Select Options→Events→Delete Events. After you select the targets and the Tasks Results page
appears, select the events to delete and click Delete. The events are deleted from the database . See
“Deleting events ” for more information.
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