HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager Software - Manual (Page 496)

Event Management 464
Filtering Events
This section describes the following:
• ” About Filtering Events ” on page 464
• ” Selecting a Severity Level ” on page 464
• ” Customizing the Severity Level Filter ” on page 466
• ” Selecting an Element Type for Events ” on page 466
• ” Customizing the Element Type Filter for Events ” on page 467
• ” Filtering Events by Summary Text or Element Name ” on page 467
• ” Hiding Filters in Event Manager ” on page 468
• ” Specifying a Filter for Events Forwarded from Storage Essentials to HP SIM ” on page 468
About Filtering Events
The management server provides several types of event filters to specify which events you want
Event Manager to display.
You can use all the event filters at once or you can use just one of them. You can filter events by:
• Severity level
• Element type
• Summary text or element name
For example, assume you are having problems with a host named WickedWitch, and you want to
see only events from WickedWitch and you only want to see events with a severity level of Critical
and Major.
You could do the following:
• Set the severity level to critical and major by clicking the Custom button next to the Show
Severity
field.
• Type WickedWitch in the Summary Text or Element Name field.
Once you set all of your filters, you would click the Apply Filters button.
Selecting a Severity Level
You can filter the events, so you only view events that are of a specified severity level. For example,
you can specify that Event Manager displays only events with a Critical severity level.
To select a severity level:
1. Select an option from the Show Severity drop-down menu in Event Manager. A dialog box
displays and allows you to select when you want to apply the new filter settings.
2. If you want to apply the new filters immediately, click the Yes button. If you want to apply the
new filter settings later, click the No button.
3. If you clicked the No button in the previous dialog box, click the Apply Filters button. The
definition for each severity level varies according to the type of element.