interest to an administrator who is concerned with primarily important and critical SAN events. The administrator can filter out these “informational” events.

Increased system performance - Storage Essentials can generate a large number of events that appear in HP SIM. Certain events can be filtered out in order to limit the communication traffic.

Events can be filtered based on the following:

Event severity - Use the <event-filter-severity>tag to filter out events by severity.

Element type - Use the <event-filter-element-type>tag to filter out events by element type.

Element name - Use the <event-filter-name> tag to filter out events by element name.

It is possible to specify multiple filter criteria in which case the resulting filter is a disjunction (logical OR) of the filter conditions. For example, the following filter excludes events from hosts or those from all element types with INFORMATIONAL severity from being forwarded from Storage Essentials to

HP SIM:

<HP-config> <event-filter-severity>INFORMATIONAL</event-filter-severity> <event-filter-element-type>HOST</event-filter-element-type>

</HP-config>

To filter events forwarded to HP SIM:

1.Go to the %JBOSS4_DIST%\server\appiq\config directory on the management server.

2.Create a file named hp-event-config.xmlin the

%JBOSS4_DIST%\server\appiq\config directory.

3.Open the hp-event-config.xmlfile in Notepad.

4.Add the following to the file:

<HP-config>

</HP-config>

5.Your filter tags will go between the <HP-config> tags, as shown in the following example:

<HP-config>

<event-filter-severity>INFORMATIONAL</event-filter-severity>

<event-filter-element-type>HOST</event-filter-element-type>

</HP-config>

6.To filter events by severity, use the <event-filter-severity>tag. For example, to prevent informational events from being forwarded to HP SIM, enter the following between the <HP-config> tags:

<event-filter-severity>INFORMATIONAL</event-filter-severity>

You can also filter out the following event severities:

UNKNOWN

CRITICAL

MAJOR

MINOR

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