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Enabling or Disabling Event Notification You can enable or disable the following notification methods for selected event categories or individual events: ■ Visual Alerts - SMU shows a visual alert indicator that a notification event has occurred. To see this, SMU must be operating on a management host. ■ Email Alerts - The system sends an email containing the events that have occurred to the designated users. ■ SNMP Traps - The system sends an SNMP trap to the designated trap host. For each notification method you enable, configure its options and select event categories or specific events to monitor. You can combine the event selections in any way that meets your needs. When one of these events occurs in the system, SMU notifies you based on your event notification settings. Note - Selecting entire event categories can result in the system sending numerous event notifications. Select the categories that are most important to you. Selecting Event Categories to Monitor To optimally configure the remote event notification feature, you must first understand the following event category options in the Event Notification Summary panel: ■ All Critical Events - Serious events that might indicate system failure and require intervention. For example, a virtual disk is down. ■ All Warning Events - Events that might require intervention although the system is still operating. For example, a virtual disk is critical. ■ All Informational Events - Events that you expect to occur. For example, a virtual disk verification has completed. Typically, you will want to select All Critical Events and All Warning Events when you are using email notification because it prevents unwanted email and paging from being sent to an administrator or other designated person. Warning and critical events typically require some form of action whereas informational events are used to track specific behaviors when troubleshooting. 54 HP StorageWorks 2000 Family Modular Smart Array reference guide • August 2008