HP SIM V5.1 User Guide (356920-009, January 2007)

c. In the Message Format section, change the option to Pager/SMS. This option sends a condensed
e-mail format that is similar to a paging task in HP SIM, which is the ideal way to send alerts to a
BlackBerry or cell phone type of hardware (or when Telephony Application Programming Interface
(TAPI) is not available and an e-mail-to-paging provider is being used).
d. Click Next. The Review summary page appears.
9. Click Next. The Select time filter section appears.
10. Select Use time filter and select Nights and Weekends, unless you want to receive the e-mail 24
hours per day. If so, clear Use time filter. See “Applying a time filter” for more infiormation.
11. Click Finish to create the new task.
Related procedures
• Creating an automatic event handling task
• Managing event handling tasks
• Scheduling a task
• Applying a time filter
Creating a task to delete all cleared events
The following example describes how to create a task to delete all cleared server events from the HP Systems
Insight Manager (HP SIM) database. This task is useful to include in your management portfolio because
deleting cleared events on a regular basis empties the database of unnecessary entries and improves system
performance.
The following task has two segments:
• Creating an event collection that contains the events you want to delete
• Creating and scheduling the task to delete all cleared server events and run the task
Creating the event collection
1. Select Search panel, and click Advanced Search. The Advanced Search page appears.
2. Select events from the Search for dropdown list.
3. From the first selection box ( criteria selection), click the down arrow, and select cleared state.
4. From the second selection box (comparison selection), click the down arrow, and select is.
5. In the third selection box (value selection), select cleared.
6. Click Add to add the system type criteria.
7. From the first selection box ( criteria selection), click the down arrow, and select system type.
8. From the second selection box (comparison selection), click the down arrow, and select is.
9. In the third selection box (value selection), the available values for a given criteria or comparison
combination are given. Select server.
10. (Optional) Click View to view the search results.
11. Click Save As to save the event collection.
12. In the Name field, enter a name for the collection, such as Delete Cleared Server Events.
13. Under Place in Folder, select to save the collection in Events by Severity to have it available to other
users.
14. Click OK to save the collection, or click Cancel to cancel the save operation.
Creating and scheduling the task
1. Select Options→Events→Clear Events. The Clear Events page appears.
2. Select the Delete Cleared Server Events collection. Select Select "Delete Cleared Server Events"
itself.
3. Click Apply.
4. Click Schedule.
5. In the Task name box, give the task a name, such as Delete Cleared Server Events.
488 Administering systems and events