Automation of two HP SIM 5.1 or 5.2 servers to provide Failover Event Handling (44776-001, January 2009)

must have

at least two of these collections, one for City A’s systems and one for City B’s systems.

For devices in City A, you

must

create a normal event handler for those devices in City A using the

above Event System combo collection and it

enabled a

ll the time.

Similarly,

for City B

, y

ou use the

Options

> Automatic Event Handing

> New

menu options to set up this standard

notification on City B CMS

To handle the transient nature for turning

the event handler

on and off for the other CMS’s devices,

e use a Custom tool, which create

s the handler for other CMS

devices only when that CMS

becomes unavailable.

Creating the

ustom

ool

This tool adds an event handler for the devices that no longer have their CMS to perform notification.

Select

Tools

> C

ustom Commands

> New Custom Command

to create a new tool.