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The Event Manager allows you to filter and forward alarm messages and specify
the display.
For monitoring, ServerView agents must be installed on the managed servers
and for servers with VMware vSphere ESXi 5 ServerView ESXi 5 CIM Provider
must be installed. If an unusual operating status occurs, the ServerView agents
automatically send an alarm (trap) to a management station. Which
management stations are to receive traps is defined during installation of the
ServerView agents or ServerView ESXi 5 CIM Provider. While setting up the
SNMP service on the management station, you define the managed servers
from which traps are to be received.
After installing the Event Manager you must first configure the alarm display and
alarm handling. You do this by defining alarm rules and filter rules in the Alarm
Configuration component. Using alarm rules, you specify which alarms are to
be forwarded from which servers to which destinations. You can also specify, via
filter rules, which alarms from which servers are to be filtered out. For a detailed
description of this alarm configuration see the chapter "Alarm configuration" on
page 37.
The Alarm Monitor component displays the received alarms, depending on the
configuration set. The Alarm Monitor offers you further functions for editing the
alarm list as well as for additional filtering of the alarm display. You can, for
example, specify which alarms from which servers are not to be shown in the
alarm list. For a detailed description of the Alarm Monitor see the chapter "Alarm
Monitor" on page 21.
ServerView comes with a series of MIBs, which are integrated in the Event
Manager. Traps from these MIBs can be received and processed in the Event
Manager. To supplement the existing MIBs, additional third-party MIBs can be
integrated into the Event Manager. Traps from these MIBs are also displayed in
the Event Manager, once the MIB has been checked.
You integrate the MIBs using the MIB Manager, which is additionally provided
when the Event Manager is installed under Windows or Linux. For more
information on this tool, see the chapter "MIB integration" on page 171.