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.
Enter a name in the Task name field, or accept the default, and then click Next. The Select event collection page appears.
Select one of the following:
1. Use this event collection
  1. Select an event collection from the dropdown list.
    Note: Select an event collection. The event collection is a collection that is defined by event attributes. The event collection might be a combination collection containing system information. If the collection contains system information, step iii will not appear. If you select an event collection that contains additional event collections, you will receive an error message.
  2. (Optional) Click View Definition to view the collection attributes that define the event collection.
    Note: This field is displayed if you selected an existing private or shared event collection. If the collection was created using the Automatic Event Handling feature that enables you to select event and system information, this will not be displayed.
  3. Click Next. The Select system collection page appears. If the event collection contains system information, the select system collection process will not be displayed. Instead, the Select actions page will appear.
2. Use event attributes that I will specify
  1. Click Next. The Select events page appears.
  2. Select 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.
3. Click Next. The Select system collection page appears.
Select one of the following options:
1. Use this system collection
  1. From the dropdown list, select a system collection.
  2. Click View Definition to view the collection attributes or the members of the system collection that is selected.
  3. Click Next. The Select action page appears.
2. Use system attributes that I will specify
  1. Click Next. The Select systems page appears.
  2. Select system 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.
  3. Click Next. The Select actions page appears.
Select from the following options:
- Send page (Windows only)
  Add users to be paged from the dropdown list of users by clicking . Click to remove selected users from the list of users to be paged. The pager number for an HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) user is set on the Users and Authorizations page. If a user name in the Users list is inactive, the pager information for the user has not been configured. You can add the user to the list of users to be paged, but pager messages are not sent to this user until the pager information is provided.
  Note: If you select a user that does not have pager information set, the Pager Information section expands where you can enter the information.
  Enter the paging information.
  Phone number. Enter the pager phone number of the user associated with this user account if you are using a Windows operating system. If the Phone number field is left blank, the paging information is not saved. This field does not apply to user groups.
  PIN number. Enter the PIN number associated with the pager phone number.
  Message length. Select how many characters can be accepted in the paging message from the dropdown list.
  Baud rate. Select the appropriate baud rate for the pager from the dropdown list.
  Data format. Select the appropriate data format for the pager from the dropdown list.
  Click Apply. A dialog box appears stating that the changes were successful. Click OK to close the box.
- 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 format that sends a message to the recipients with the same information and format as a pager message.
  HTML. An e-mail message format that sends a message to the recipients that looks like the HTML Event Details page.
  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)
  Chinese (GB18030)
  Chinese (Big5)
  Korean (EUC-KR)
- Run custom tool
  Select a custom tool from the Name dropdown list. Custom tools are created under the ToolsCustom ToolsNew Custom Tool option, and then select CMS tool.
- 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 then 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 then select an option from the dropdown list.
1. Click Manage Filters if you want to set user-defined filters.
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, owner, time filters, event collections, system collections, and actions information is 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.
(Optional) Click Edit modem settings to edit the modem settings, or click Edit email Settings to edit the SMTP settings.
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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