Receiving email about logged messages

You can specify options to receive email whenever certain messages, or certain types of messages, are logged.

Before you begin

Before you can receive email, you must first configure information about your Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server so that email can be delivered.

About this task

When you configure alerts, you can choose an option to log messages when certain events occur. If you enable those options, you can then configure options to receive email automatically whenever those messages are logged. You can also specify options to receive email when other messages are logged, not just messages that are triggered by events.

Procedure

To configure email options for messages:

If you want to receive email about system messages:
1. Click System to open the System view.
2. Open the Log page and click Configure email options for messages.
3. On the Email Options for System Messages page, select the Send email about system-level messages check box.
4. In the Email address for receiving email field, type one or more email addresses. Typically, an administrator should receive information about system messages.
  Separate each address with a comma. For example:
  
  steinbeck@us.ibm.com, yeats@ireland.ibm.com, dante@it.ibm.com.
5. If you want to receive email about all error messages that are logged, select the Send email about all error messages check box.
6. If you want to receive email only when certain system-level messages are logged, type the message IDs for those messages in the Send email about certain messages area. Type one message ID per line. For example:
```
FFQC4819E
FFQO0005E
```
If you want to receive email about messages for a collection:
1. Click Collections to open the Collections view.
2. For the collection that you want to configure click Actions > Logging > Configure email options for messages.
3. On the Email Options for Collection Messages page, select the Send email about collection-level messages check box.
4. In the Email address for receiving email field, type one or more email addresses. Typically, a collection administrator should receive information about collection-level messages.
  Separate each address with a comma. For example:
  
  steinbeck@us.ibm.com, yeats@ireland.ibm.com, dante@it.ibm.com.
5. If you want to receive email about all error messages that are logged, select the Send email about all error messages check box.
6. If you want to receive email only when certain collection-level messages are logged, type the message IDs for those messages in the Send email about certain messages area. Type one message ID per line. For example:
```
FFQC4819E
FFQO0005E
```