Event Explanations

[Francis Frisina]

Hi All:

Well, I've got HP SIM up and running nicely on a small network of Windows Server 2003 machines, and I would like to create some events that will notify me when certain things happen with those machines.

Namely, I would like to know when hardware in those machines goes AWOL. Or when a machine goes unreachable. Now, I understand that these things are viewable from the system list or the system management page for each machine, but because I would like to have these alerts emailed to me, I would like to set up some auto events to handle them.

That's where I start to have trouble. What in the world do all those event categories actually mean? Is there a reference page somewhere on the 'net that explains them just a bit better? Trial and error is really not an acceptable option here - in spite of what the tech from HP told me.

Even if someone has, perhaps, a page that has all those event types and their subtypes listed in a tree form.... anything would help. References like this should be included with the software, in my opinion.

In the meantime, I guess I'll make a little tree myself, just in case no one has anything here.

Thanks a bunch.

[Rob Buxton]

You might want to start a bit simpler. You could just create an Event Notification based on a Critical Event, and another for a Major Event.
Hopefully you're not getting loads of these a day.
Typically that's the way we work here. I just keep an eye on the Minor events via HPSIM, but I'm e-mailed Critical and Major Events.

[Francis Frisina]

That's a good idea. I will do that until I figure out what the other myriad of events really mean.

Thanks! Point given.