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13 Event management

Events are typically sent to the CMS from agents running on the managed systems. However, some

events are generated directly from the CMS itself. Managed systems must be configured to send

events to the CMS. After the CMS receives the event, if it passes the filters, any actions configured

to happen upon its receipt are run, and the event is stored in the HP SIM database for later viewing.

The event list page is the view for an event collection and lists of events that meet common criteria.

From this page, you can clear, delete, and assign events, enter comments on the event, and view

printable reports. To access the event list page, select an event collection from the System and

Event Collections panel.

Monitoring events in HP SIM includes the following tasks:

• Automatic Event Handling

Enables you to manage automatic event handling tasks, create new automatic event handling

tasks, and configure e-mail and modem settings.

• Clearing Events

Enables you to clear events. Select Options→Events→Clear Events. Select the target events to

clear and click Clear.

Cleared events remain in the HP SIM database, but no longer contribute to the status icon

reported in the System Status panel.

• Deleting Events

Enables you to delete events from the database.

Select Options→Events→Delete Events. Select the events to delete and click Delete. The events

are deleted from the database This tool can be scheduled to run on a regular basis. For more

information, see “Default system tasks” (page 192).

NOTE: You can also delete events from the event view page.

Event management configuration

The following menu options are used to configure event management:

• Event Filter Settings

Enables you to filter SNMP traps you receive from discovered systems. The default setting is

to accept all registered SNMP traps from all discovered systems. You can specify the severity

of the traps you want to see and use the IP address ranges to create a subset of systems whose

traps you can receive or ignore. For example, you can use event filtering to ignore informational

traps. This feature is available to users with administrative rights.

To access Event Filter Settings, select Options→Events→Event Filter Settings.

• SNMP Trap Settings

Enables you to tailor trap messages to your specific network needs. Trap messages can be

cryptic, poorly written, and incomprehensible. You can modify the Management Information

Base (MIB) information in the database representation. You can also modify a .cfg file of

the MIB. HP recommends that you never modify an actual MIB. To access SNMP trap settings,

select Options→Events→SNMP Trap Settings.

SNMP trap settings are available to users with administrative rights and are used to view or

edit trap details for a registered MIB.

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