Streamlining Automatic Event Handling

[Tim Keene]

Looking for some tips to help with configuring Automatic Event Handling.

We currently have over 100 servers we monitor. This group is split in two, with 5 in a Network group, and the rest in a Server group. We have two seperate notification types (email and paging) for each team. There are certain events we do not want to receive emails or pages for.

To do this currently, I have created 4 different AEH tasks: 2 Network (Page, Email) and 2 for Server (Page, Email). The issue is that it takes about 3 minutes to load up the Server query in the server tasks.

On CIM 7, there was a link query you could click on to just select which servers you wanted the task applied to, while it seems you have to go through this huge process of adding each server in a large complicated And statement.

If anyone knows of a way to simplify this without creating multiple tasks, I'd appreciate it. My concern is that as we add and remove servers to the query as our organization grows, this huge list will get more complicated.

Thanks!

[David Claypool]

This might be helpful: http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=587749

[Tim Keene]

Thanks for the quick response! Two questions:

1) When I run the Create Group task, I get the following output:
There was a problem connecting to the HP Systems Insight Manager server. Make sure that:
1. Your username has been added to HP Systems Insight Manager.
2. Your username and password, if specified, are correctly spelled.
3. HP Systems Insight Manager is running.
4. You used ´--´ for any long options and double quotes if your username includes a domain.
Example: --user "mydomain\myusername" --pass mypassword

I am logged in as an admin user, and the task is executed as that user.

2) I opened a command prompt and, using the command listed in the above output:
mxngroup -m -g "Group 1" -d "Test Group" -n server1.domain.net server1.domain.net

(servernames changed from actual systems)
This creates the group and places it under the Systems - Shared tree. How do I reference this in the Automated Event Handing configuration where currently I have in the definition:

Systems:
system name is server1
system name is server2

etc?

Thanks again!

[dospavlos]

Anyone find a way to associate an automatic event task with a system group instead of having to choose members by attributes?