Setting up automatic event handling

Automatic event handling enables you to define an action that HP SIM performs when an event is received.

To set up automatic event handling:

Select OptionsEventsAutomatic Event HandlingNew Task. The Automatic Event Handling - New Task page appears.
There are two ways to specify the event that you want to handle. Select from one of the two radio buttons:
- with event and system attributes that I will specify
- with an existing event collection
and click Next. The Select name page appears.
Enter a name in the Task name field, and click Next. The Select events page appears.
1. If you selected the radio button, with event and system attributes that I will specify Select the event search criteria for defining the task:
  - List criteria
  - Comparison option
  - Value for the criteria or comparison options selected
  To add additional search criteria, click Add. Click Next. The Select systems page appears.
  Select the system criteria for defining the task:
  - List criteria
  - Comparison option
  - Value for the criteria or comparison options selected
  To add additional criteria, click Add.
2. If you selected the radio button, with an existing event collection. Enter the Task name and click Next.
  - Select the event collection from the dropdown list. This step enables you to select an event collection and its associated system information. Click View to view a read-only view of the event and system collection criteria. Click Previous to return to the previous step, or click Next to continue with the next step. The Select actions page appears.
See HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 User Guide at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html for more information on event searches.
Select from the following options:
- Send e-mail
  In the To field, enter the list of e-mail addresses that should receive the notification, separating each entry with a comma.
  In the CC field, enter any e-mail address that should receive a copy of the e-mail, separating each entry with a comma.
  In the Subject field, enter a note describing the subject of the e-mail.
  In the Message Format field, select from the following formats based on the encoding preference of the recipient:
  Standard. A default message format that sends a text e-mail message to the recipients.
  Pager/SMS. An e-mail message formatted with the same information and format as a pager message is sent to the recipients.
  HTML. An e-mail message that looks like the HTML Event Details page is sent to the recipients.
  In the Encoding field, select from the following formats:
  Western European (ISO-8859-1)
  Unicode (UTF-8)
  Japanese (ISO-2022-JP)
  Japanese (Shift_JIS)
  Japanese (EUC-JP)
- Run custom tools
  Select a custom tool from the Name dropdown list. Custom tools are created under the ToolsCustom ToolsNew Custom Tool option. See HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 User Guide at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html for more information.
- Assign
  Enter the name of the person to whom to assign the task. The event is assigned to this user when received. Setting this field allows you to do searches assigned to this person.
- Forward as SNMP trap
  Enter a system name or IP address in the Name or IP field, and click >> to add it to the Trap recipients box.
  Click Delete if you want to delete a recipient after selecting the name in the Trap recipients box. Use the up and down arrows to scroll to the recipient to delete.
- Write to system log
  On Windows NT and Windows XP systems, the event details are written to the Application Log, and the Source column of the Event Log is listed as HP SIM for the logged event. On Linux and HP-UX systems, the event details are logged to the system log, which is usually located in the file /var/log/messages on Linux and in /var/adm/sysLog/syslog.log on HP-UX.
- Clear event
  Received events are cleared based on the criteria selected when task executes.
After you have made your selections, click Next. The Select time filter page appears.
Select the Use time filter checkbox if you want to use time filters, and select an option from the dropdown list.
1. Click Manage Filters if you want to set user-defined filters. See HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 User Guide at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html for more information.
2. Select the View time filter checkbox. A time filter window appears, showing the times selected.
  If the Use time filter checkbox is not selected, actions are triggered whenever the events matching the selected criteria are received.
  If the Use time filter checkbox is selected, actions are triggered only when they occur during the days and times specified by the selected time filter.
3. When you have entered the information, click Next to continue with the next step. The Review summary page appears. The Task name, the events, system criteria, and Action(s) information are displayed. If a paging or e-mail option was selected, the modem and e-mail settings are displayed, along with buttons to change the settings.
Click Edit Modem Settings to edit the modem settings, or click Edit email Settings to edit the SMTP settings. See HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 User Guide at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html for more information.
Note: The event and system search criteria appear at the bottom of the page. This information can be extremely complex and long. Therefore, you might need to scroll down to view all of the criteria.
Click Finish to create the new task.

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