HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

Event Filter Settings Event filtering is a way 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.
To access Event Filter Settings, select OptionsEventsEvent Filter Settings.
SNMP Trap Settings SNMP trap settings is available to users with administrative rights and is used
to view or edit trap details for a registered MIB.
SNMP traps enable you to tailor trap messages to your specific network needs. Trap messages can be
cryptic, poorly written, and incomprehensible. You can modify the MIB information in the database
representation. You can also modify a .cfg file of the MIB. HP recommends that you never modify an
actual MIB. To access SNMP trap settings, select OptionsEventsSNMP Trap Settings. See
“Editing a MIB” for more information about editing MIBs.
See “Configuring SNMP trapsfor more information about SNMP trap settings.
Status Change Event Settings This page is used to configure the settings for sending status change
events for systems when hardware status changes. To access, select OptionsEventsStatus Change
Event Settings.
See “Configuring status change eventsfor more information.
Subscribing to WBEM Events Select OptionsEventsSubscribe to WBEM Events.
See “Subscribing to WBEM indicationsfor more information.
Unsubscribing to WBEM Events Select OptionsEventsUnsubscribe to WBEM Events.
See “Unsubscribing to WBEM indicationsfor more information.
OpenWBEM is not supported.
Example automatic event handling tasks
HP SIM ships with three example automatic event handling tasks which are disabled by default. When the
Automatic Event Handling - Manage Tasks page is displayed, you can select one of the example tasks
and click View Definition.
example - all desktop information events This task is triggered when an informational event is received
from the discovered desktop systems and this task clears the event. The same task can be edited to
change the action of the system criteria . See “Editing automatic event handling tasksfor more
information about editing automatic event handling tasks.
example - all linux MIB updates This task is triggered when a MIB update events request is received
from all managed Linux target systems that are discovered and Identified in HP SIM. The same task can
be edited and saved as new task. See “Editing automatic event handling tasksfor more information
about editing automatic event handling tasks.
example - all server failed sign-in events This task is triggered when a failed sign-in attempt is made.
Sign-in failure might be caused by an invalid user account, sign-in attempt from an excluded IP address,
or because the sign-in attempt failed authentication. See “Editing automatic event handling tasksfor
more information about editing automatic event handling tasks.
Related procedures
Configuring e-mail settings
Configuring modem settings for paging
Creating an automatic event handling task
Managing event handling tasks
Configuring event filters for registered SNMP traps
Configuring SNMP traps
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