Clearing Advance Filtering Options

You can clear the filtering set for advanced options, by clicking the Clear Data button under the Advanced Options heading.

Specifying a Filter for Events Forwarded from Storage Essentials to HP SIM

Users can filter events forwarded from Storage Essentials to HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM). Filtering events sent to HP SIM has the following advantages:

Improved usability - Although all event notification is theoretically useful, some events may have little information value. For example, Log In/Log out events for Storage Essentials may be of little interest to an administrator who is concerned primarily with 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-element-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 (the logical or) of the filter conditions. For example, the following filter excludes events from hosts or events 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\conf directory on the management server.

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

%JBOSS4_DIST%\server\appiq\conf directory.

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

4.Add the following to the file:

<HP-config>

</HP-config>

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>

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