HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

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Enabling and disabling event handling tasks
NOTE: This option is especially useful for notification tasks imported from Insight Manager 7,
which are imported into HP SIM in a disabled state. You can edit these tasks, verify that the settings
are accurate, and then enable the tasks by clicking Enable.
NOTE: The button label changes depending on if the task is enabled or disabled.
Procedure 158 Enabling or disabling event handling tasks
1. Select Options→Events→Automatic Event Handling→Manage Task. The Automatic Event
Handling - Manage Tasks page appears.
2. Select a task to enable or disable.
3. If the task is enabled and you want to disable it, click Disable, or if the task is disabled and
you want to enable it, click Enable.
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Configuring e-mail settings
Procedure 159 Configuring e-mail settings
1. Enter the SMTP host name. The SMTP host is the outgoing e-mail server that the CMS uses to
send e-mail notifications.
2. In the Sender's e-mail address box, enter the e-mail address that the management server uses
when sending e-mail notifications.
3. Optional: Select Send test email and enter recipients e-mail address.
Click Send test email now.
4. To authenticate your SMTP server, select Server Requires Authentication.
5. Enter the account user name and password in the corresponding boxes.
NOTE: If you did not enter a valid SMTP host, HP SIM display an error message: The email
could not be sent: Could not connect to the SMTP host.
If you are changing the e-mail settings from the Options→Events→Automatic Event
Handling→Email Settings page, click OK to save changes.
NOTE: If the Server Requires Authentication option is selected, and you enter incorrect account
information, an The email could not be sent: Authentication error message displays.
Additional e-mail settings
The globalsettings.props contains properties that can be set for additional information to
be included in e-mail messages.
EmailPrefixUserSubject
To have user defined information (from the e-mail information on the Actions page) displayed first
on the subject line of an e-mail, you must change the EmailPrefixUserSubject property in the
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