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Storage Essentials 5.1 User Guide 469

Element type

- Use the tag to filter out events by element

type.

Element name

- Use the 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 (logical

OR) of the filter conditions. For example, the following filter excludes events from hosts or those

from all element types with INFORMATIONAL severity from being forwarded from Storage

Essentials to HP SIM:

INFORMATIONAL

HOST

To filter events forwarded to HP SIM:

1.

Go to the %JBOSS4_DIST%\server\appiq\config directory on the management server.

2.

Create a file named hp-event-config.xml in the
%JBOSS4_DIST%\server\appiq\config directory.

3.

Open the hp-event-config.xml file in Notepad.

4.

Add the following to the file:

5.

Your filter tags will go between the tags, as shown in the following example:

INFORMATIONAL

HOST

6.

To filter events by severity, use the tag. For example, to prevent

informational events from being forwarded to HP SIM, enter the following between the

tags:

INFORMATIONAL

You can also filter out the following event severities:
• UNKNOWN
• CRITICAL
• MAJOR
• MINOR
• INFORMATIONAL
• WARNING

7.

To filter events by element type, use the tag. For

example, to prevent events from hosts from being forwarded to HP SIM, enter the following

between the tags:

HOST

event-filter-element-type>

You can filter out the following element types:
• HOST