topic Re: HP sim associate events for clearing in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

HP sim associate events for clearing

Paul Debleecker — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:17:27 GMT

Hi,

We are evaluating HP SIM 5.1 for monitoring of all our hp hardware and software running on it.

I did not find a possibility to associate events. So that one event clears the other one.

An example :

"Tape Library Door Opened (5013)" event happened today at 4/12/07 8:38

A few minutes later :
"Tape Library Door Closed (5014)" event happened on the same device.

HP SIM is not able to associate this and the first event stays uncleared. It has to be done manually. I would like to have the second event clear both events.

Same situation for "Link Up" and "Link down" events.

Any idea how to do this?

Regards.

Re: HP sim associate events for clearing

Daniel Leblanc — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:25:31 GMT

There only one way to do this is to creat on event clearing ,this on OPTION>EVENTS>AUTOMATIQUE EVENTS HANDLING>MANAGE EVENTS>NEW TASK>...you creat to task to clear when it happens.

PS: DON'T FERGET TO APPLY YOU'RE POINTS, there situated next to every message in you're thread ,next to date and time as UNASSIGNED.

TY

Daniel

IF you want me to help how to do it please informe.

Re: HP sim associate events for clearing

Paul Debleecker — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:42:41 GMT

Hi,

Thank you for your reply. Indeed, with automatic event handling I can select to clear the event. But this clears only the "Tape Library Door Closed (5014)" itself.

Regards.

Re: HP sim associate events for clearing

Daniel Leblanc — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:43:30 GMT

You can designe to clear just one event or categorie of events,it is how you can creat it.

You.re mind can creat the one you want!

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Re: HP sim associate events for clearing

Paul Debleecker — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:40:48 GMT

Hi

I'm sorry. It's the first time that I use the forum. I didn't find where to apply them. But I have found it and I have assigned your points now.

I will need your help. Maybe with an example.

With the automatic event handling wizard, I see that HP SIM can clear an event (based on the collection or category) automatically when it comes in. But I cant configure to clear automatically another event : in step 4 of the wizard (see attachment) I can click 'clear event', but I don't have the possibility there to select the events that I want to clear. It only clears itself.

Please explain how you see it possible to clear other events automatically.

Thank you for your help.

Kind regards.

Re: HP sim associate events for clearing

Daniel Leblanc — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:14:32 GMT

Ok here is exemple:
Option>Events>Automatic Event handling>New task
1_give it a name
2_Select ''use event attributes that i will specify
3_Select ''Event type'' and ''IS'' and go the one you wants Tape Library Door Opened (5013)"
4_Here you can specify a server or many server individualy,or a Groupe,if it for a backup server i would go for ''use event attributes that i will specify''
5_and then check CLEAR EVANT
6_you're done

Dan

Re: HP sim associate events for clearing

Daniel Leblanc — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:16:07 GMT

oups after step 5, you go next and then FINISH then you're done!!

Dan

Re: HP sim associate events for clearing

Paul Debleecker — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:06:17 GMT

Hello Dan,

Your example will only clear the tape door opened event. Not the tape door closed.

I want to have the event tape door opened not cleared when the door is still openened but only when the event 'tape door closed' has occured.

I still think that hpsim is not able to do that with snmp events.
It can do that with own poller events : when a system is unreachable and then back reachable, the 'unreachable' event is automatically cleared.

Regards.

Re: HP sim associate events for clearing

Daniel Leblanc — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:12:16 GMT

Ok here is exemple:
Option>Events>Automatic Event handling>New task
1_give it a name
2_Select ''use event attributes that i will specify
3_Select ''Event type'' and ''IS'' and go the one you wants Tape Library Door Opened (5013)" and "Tape Library Door Closed (5014)" ( you can select many reason here from one the all of them)
4_Here you can specify a server or many server individualy,or a Groupe,if it for a backup server i would go for ''use event attributes that i will specify''
5_and then check CLEAR EVANT
6_you're done

The answer was partiel there,oh well, this will clear open door and close doors

Re: HP sim associate events for clearing

CLEB — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:04:25 GMT

This is in Proliant Storage events.

Re: HP sim associate events for clearing

Frederic Crespo — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:11:11 GMT

Hi,

I actually have the same need. Events don't need to be cleared both automatically they need to be cleared only if the other one happens and is linked.

Example:
A critical event occurs for a NIC on a specific piece of hardware.
Two hours later a positive event happens regarding the same NIC on the same Hardware. This should clear the preceding event and only that one.
The positive event should not be cleared all evetns of the same category but regarding another HW should not be cleared evene if only the NIC is different.

As far as I've checked so far this can not be done in HP SIM.

I've tried to clear events with SQL queries accessing the DB directly but it does not work as I hoped. The server needs to restart before it is actually visible from the console???

As anyone any idea on how to achieve this?

Re: HP sim associate events for clearing

David Claypool — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:43:18 GMT

Event correlation is not a feature of HP SIM. Opening the database and writing to it is not only not supported but it is the quickest way to make an HP SIM instance non-functioning.

Re: HP sim associate events for clearing

Frederic Crespo — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:54:10 GMT

Thanks for this straightforward answer.