HP Netsight manual NetSight Element Manager Tool Suite, Alarm and Event Handling

Overview of NetSight Element Manager

When you exclude a node from the central node database, that node is no longer displayed in any view, and is moved to the Excluded Nodes database. Though these nodes can no longer be displayed or managed, they are protected from re-discovery, and they can be re-included in the central node database at any time. Excluded nodes can also be deleted entirely.

The Excluded Nodes database can be viewed via the View—>Excluded Nodes menu option available via the primary NetSight Element Manager window; for more information on this feature, see Chapter 4, List Views.

Alarm and Event Handling

NetSight Element Manager provides powerful alarm and event handling capabilities via the independent Alarm and Event Service. The Event User Connection Service receives all incoming messages issued by devices configured to send traps to your workstation, as well as system events issued by the NetSight Element Manager Network Status process or another of its component processes (e.g., Discover or Scheduler). Because it is an independent process, the Event User Connection Service can operate without NetSight Element Manager running, receiving (and, where appropriate, acting on) traps issued by your networking devices or events issued by one of NetSight Element Manager’s component services.

You can create multiple Log Views to view a single trap/event database; you can also define a separate set of View Filters for each Log View window. The Alarm and Event handler allows you to define two types of event handling actions: foreground actions, which you can apply interactively to a received trap or event; and background actions, which provide unattended checking for a specified trap or event’s occurrence, and then activate the pre-determined event handling response.

Trap and event data can be exported to HTML for report generation capability on an internal Web server, and used in conjunction with the Pager alarm notification tool (part of the Scheduler tool described on page 2-12).

For more information about alarm and event handling, see the Alarm and Event Handling User’s Guide; for more information about the Scheduler application, see the Tools Guide.

The NetSight Element Manager Tool Suite

NetSight Element Manager includes a number of powerful utility applications — or tools

—which ease the task of monitoring and managing your network. Among these tools are Remote Administration Tools, the Scheduler, and MIB Tools.

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