Setting Event Attributes

Introduction to Event Settings in Application Discovery

Application Discovery logs various application and administrative events occurring in the computing network. It records events that occur in association with applications, host machines, agents, and templates. You can set the desired severity for an event type and the location at which the event alert can be seen.

Prerequisite: You must have “VSE All Tools” authorization to set event attributes. (See “User Authorizations” in VSE Management Software Help for a discussion of VSE tool box permissions.)

To access and modify the attribute fields for events, click the Admin/Config tab, then the Events tab. The next figure shows part of the event configuration fields.

Figure 3-5 Event Tab Showing Configuration Fields for Data Center and Administrative Events

The Events tab shows two panes: one for data center events and one for administrative events. Each pane contains:

A list of event types that can be managed,

Drop-down lists that allow you to set the level of severity for each event type. Each severity has an iconic indicator associated with it that can be seen in Application Discovery (by clicking the Events tab) or in HP SIM (by looking at the uncleared events lists).

Lists that allow you to specify where event notifications shall post for viewing.

Setting Event Severity

See “Key to Event Attributes”for an explanation of event types and severity levels.

Setting Alert Location

To set the alert location:

See “Key to Event Attributes”for the explanation of event types and alert locations.