10 Event Management
HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition supports a subset of the devices supported by Enterprise Edition. See the HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition Support Matrix for a list of supported devices. The support matrix is accessible from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials).
This chapter contains the following topics:
•About Event Manager, page 329
•Viewing Event Details, page 335
•Configuring the Clearing of Events, page 336
•Configuring the Deletion of Events, page 337
•Adding Journal Entries, page 339
•Changing the CLARiiON Event Polling Interval, page 339
About Event Manager
Event Manager lets you view, clear, sort, and filter events from managed elements. An event can be anything that occurs on the element, such as when a device connected to a Brocade switch has gone offline. Event Manager provides the following information about the events:
•ID- The identification number assigned to the event
•Severity - Identifies the severity level.
•Time - The time the event was recorded.
•Element - The source of the event. An element can be a switch, host, application, fabric or anything else on the network.
•Summary Text - A brief explanation of the event. When you click the text, the details of the event are displayed.
•Event Type - Specifies whether the source of this event is an application, a host, etc.
•Count - The total count of similar events.
•Cleared - Specifies whether an event is cleared. See ”Clearing Events” on page 336.
•Delete - Click the 
icon to remove an event.
Event Manager also provides several buttons at the top of its screen:
•Delete Selected - Deletes all selected events.
•Delete All - Deletes all events lists.
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