Thank you again, Andrew.
That didn't seem to work. I change the severity to Critical but it still shows up as an informational event.
I've been reading thru a few other spearate posts here, a suggestion from Tushar Bajpai was to run mxwbemsub from the SIM host. When I do that and query my 3 ESXi hosts, I'm getting 2 Filter Names for each host, HPSIM_TYPE_1_hostname_0 and then hostname_1. Although each query is different:
select * from CIM_AlertIndication and select * from HP_DeviceIndication.
Is this normal or problematic?
Further down in that same thread, there was an indication that disabling the ESX firewall helped. I'm headed down that path now...stay tuned.