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Ignoring hardware alerts

With the release of the HP Management Packs 1.3 for MOM 2005, you can ignore specific HP hardware alerts generated by the Servers Service Discovery events. Alerts that you identify as non-critical can be ignored and will no longer be reported to MOM.

Be careful in selecting to ignore HP hardware alerts. New warnings and critical errors occurring on HP ProLiant or Integrity servers in your MOM environment will not be reported to MOM.

To ignore an alert:

  1. Open the MOM Administrator Console.
  2. Click Console Root>Microsoft Operations Manager>Management Packs>Rule Groups>HP ProLiant Servers or HP Integrity Servers>HP Insight Management Agents>State Monitoring and Service Discovery>Event Rules.

    Selecting the Event Rules folder

  3. Right-click HP ProLiant Servers Service Discovery or HP Integrity Servers Service Discovery, and select Properties.
  4. Click the Responses tab.
  5. Select HP ProLiant Servers Service Discovery or HP Integrity Servers Service Discovery, and click Edit.
  6. In the Script parameters field, select the HP hardware alert to ignore, and click Edit Parameter.

    Launch a Script window

  7. Enter one of the following entries in the Value field:
  8. Click close on each open window.
  9. Right-click the folder Console Root>Microsoft Operations Manager>Management Packs, and select Commit Configuration Change.

    Commit Configuration Change option