2 Event Manager
The Event Manager allows you to filter and forward alarm messages and specify the display.
For monitoring, ServerView agents must be installed on the managed servers and for servers with VMware vSphere ESXi 5 ServerView ESXi 5 CIM Provider must be installed. If an unusual operating status occurs, the ServerView agents automatically send an alarm (trap) to a management station. Which management stations are to receive traps is defined during installation of the ServerView agents or ServerView ESXi 5 CIM Provider. While setting up the SNMP service on the management station, you define the managed servers from which traps are to be received.
After installing the Event Manager you must first configure the alarm display and alarm handling. You do this by defining alarm rules and filter rules in the Alarm Configuration component. Using alarm rules, you specify which alarms are to be forwarded from which servers to which destinations. You can also specify, via filter rules, which alarms from which servers are to be filtered out. For a detailed description of this alarm configuration see the chapter "Alarm configuration" on page 37.
The Alarm Monitor component displays the received alarms, depending on the configuration set. The Alarm Monitor offers you further functions for editing the alarm list as well as for additional filtering of the alarm display. You can, for example, specify which alarms from which servers are not to be shown in the alarm list. For a detailed description of the Alarm Monitor see the chapter "Alarm Monitor" on page 21.
ServerView comes with a series of MIBs, which are integrated in the Event Manager. Traps from these MIBs can be received and processed in the Event Manager. To supplement the existing MIBs, additional
You integrate the MIBs using the MIB Manager, which is additionally provided when the Event Manager is installed under Windows or Linux. For more information on this tool, see the chapter "MIB integration" on page 171.
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