HP Operations Manager for UNIX Administrator’s Reference

Configuring HPOM
Configuring Flexible Management Templates
Message Target Rules
Message-target rules define the management server to which specific
messages are sent based on the time of day, date, and message attribute
conditions. HPOM uses message-target rules to determine message
escalation policy in an environment containing multiple management
servers. HPOM provides a set of ASCII templates which you can copy
and edit to define Flexible Management features.
These example templates are located in the following directory:
/etc/opt/OV/share/conf/OpC/mgmt_sv/tmpl_respmgrs
To define message-target rules:
1. Open the appropriate Responsible Management template file.
2. Find the section header MSGTARGETRULES
3. Define the message conditions in the subsection, MSGCONDTYPE.
You can define the following conditions:
Match
Suppress
4. Define the message attributes in the subsection, MSGTARGETRULES.
You can define the following attributes:
Severity, Message group, Application, Object, Node, Message type,
Message text, Service name.
5. Define the message-target manager, according to the time template
used, in the subsection, MSGTARGETMANAGER.
6. Save and close the modified template file.
7. Run the HPOM template validation tool opcmomchk(1) on the
finished configuration file to ensure that your changes are correct:
/opt/OV/bin/OpC/opcmomchk file_name
See the man page opcmomchk(1) for more information.
8. As user root, copy the validated file to the configuration directory:
cp file_name /etc/opt/OV/share/conf/OpC/mgmt_sv/respmgrs
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