Configuring automatic event handling

Automatic event handling enables HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) to perform an action when a specific event occurs. The First Time Wizard lets you define one task, based on an existing event collection, that will send an e-mail notification when an event matching the event collection attributes occurs. For example, you can configure HP SIM to send an e-mail to the system administrator whenever a failed login event occurs. Perform the following procedure to define a task in the First Time Wizard. The name of this Automatic Event task is the System Event Handler task.




	NOTE: If this task is already defined, the task information is displayed but there are no editing capabilities for this task in the First Time Wizard. To edit the System Event Handler task, you must select OptionsEventsAutomatic Event HandlingManage Tasks.

Additional options for defning event handling tasks are available when you select OptionsEventsAutomatic Event Handling. You can configure HP SIM to send a page, run a custom tool, assign an event, forward an event as an SNMP trap, write the event to the system log, or clear an event. See the HP Systems Insight Manager 5.1 User Guide at http://h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html for more information.

Complete the following procedure to define the System Event Handler task. If you do not want to define a task, click Next to skip this step.

In the Event Collection box, select the event collection from the dropdown list.
Click View Definition to see a description of the selected criteria.
Ensure that the Send e-mail box is selected. Enter the following information:
- 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 in HTML format that 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)
Click Next to save your settings and view a summary of the selections you made in the First Time Wizard.

Configuring automatic event handling

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