HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager Software - Manual (Page 500)

Event Management 468
NOTE: If you accessed Event Manager by double-clicking an element in Capacity Manager,
Performance Manager or System Manager and then clicking the Events tab, you can filter only
events by summary text.
To filter elements by summary text or element name:
1. In the Summary Text or Element Name field in Event Manager, type the summary text or
element name you want to be used in the filter.
2. To filter events by element type, do one of the following:
• Select a filter from the Show Element Type drop-down menu. See ”
Selecting an Element
Type for Events ” on page 466 for more information about the menu options.
• Click the Customize button next to the Show Element Type drop-down menu in Event
Manager. Select the elements you want to be included in the filter and then click OK.
3. When you are asked if you want to apply your changes, click Yes.
4. Click the Apply Filters button.
Only events with the specified text are displayed in Event Manager.
Hiding Filters in Event Manager
Hide the filters for additional screen space. When you hide the filters, the following features are
hidden:
• Show Severity
• Show Element Type
• Summary Text or Element Name
To hide the filters, click the Hide Filters link in the upper-left corner of Event Manager.
To display the filters, click the Show Filters link in the upper-left corner of Event Manager.
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:
• Improve 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 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 tag to filter out events by severity.