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events that you can customize. All of these combine to create automated failover in a VCEM
environment.
In summary there are three major ways to use HP SIM Automatic Event Handling with the
VCEM failover feature:
• Event notifies the administrator but does not initiate failover.
• Event initiates failover but does not notify the administrator.
• Event both notifies the administrator and initiates failover.
Configuring HP SIM Automatic Event Handling script to initiate failover
This section explains how to create a sample HP SIM Automatic Event Handling script to
invoke a VCEM CLI. While this is an example, these steps will be the same regardless of
which of the aforementioned three Event Handling approaches you select.
The VCEM home page contains a link under Failover to “HP SIM Automatic Event Handling
– Manage Tasks”. This is a convenient link to the HP SIM Automatic Event Handling script.
Figure 6: Using failover with HP SIM Automatic Event Handling
The link displays the following page. From this GUI you can configure Automatic Event
Handling. To create a new action on event:
1. Click New to initiate the wizard.