How to remove the HP Event Notifier

[Mike Green_5]

I had configured the HP event notifier on each of my servers to have alerts delivered to my support group via SMTP. This was done before I installed an IM 4.2 management console, which has been configured and is also sending me alerts. The IM alerts are more meaningful to me and I would like to stop getting the event notifier alerts. What I would like to do is uninstall the local event notifier however I cannot find a mechanism to remove it. Is this possible or are there any recommendations of how to stop the locally generated alerts?

Any suggestions?
Thanks
Mike

[Rob Buxton]

Just stop the Service and then disable it.

[David Claypool]

The HP Event Notifier is part of an installation package and can't be uninstalled separately. You can, however, stop the service and then disable it. 'sc' is the command line interface to the Windows Service Control Manager. You can run these 2 commands on every system to do that:

sc stop cimnotify
sc config cimnotify start= disabled

You can even get fancy and create a batch file with this content on the HP SIM CMS:

SC \\%DEVICENAME% STOP CIMNOTIFY
SC \\%DEVICENAME% CONFIG CIMNOTIFY START= DISABLED

If the batch file is on your CMS and has the pathname C:\STOPNOTIFY.BAT, then you can create a custom command in HP SIM that calls the batch file. You can select multiple servers and SIM will iterate through each of them, replacing %DEVICENAME% with the name of the target each time. Note: the user the SIM service runs as must have the ability to do this with the target over RPC.

[jbpnet]

Any idea if this stop the HP SIM from getting notifications? I want to monitor my server from HP SIM but need to stop the local HP notifier. I know I could go in and enter in a false email but wanted to know if it can just be turned off?