Suspending email alerts temporarily

In certain situations, you might want to suspend email alerts temporarily. For example, you might want to receive alert summaries but suspend notification about individual alerts, or you might want to suspend email alerts when an administrator is on vacation.

Before you begin

Configure email notification for administrators, as described in Sending email alerts to administrators.

Procedure

Suspend email notification for individual alerts or for alert summaries.

Suspend notification about individual alerts
Use either of the following methods:
UPDATE ADMIN command
To turn off email notification for the administrator, issue the following command:
```
UPDATE ADMIN admin_name ALERT=NO
```
To turn on email notification again later, issue the following command:
UPDATE ADMIN admin_name ALERT=YES
UPDATE ALERTTRIGGER command
To prevent a specific alert from being sent to an administrator, issue the following command:
```
UPDATE ALERTTRIGGER message_number DELADMIN=admin_name
```
To start sending that alert to the administrator again, issue the following command:
UPDATE ALERTTRIGGER message_number ADDADMIN=admin_name
Suspend notification about alert summaries
To prevent alert summaries from being sent to an administrator, remove the administrator ID from the list in the following command:
```
SET ALERTSUMMARYTOADMINS admin_name1,admin_name2,admin_name3
```
If an administrator ID is listed in the preceding command, the administrator receives alert summaries by email, even if notification about individual alerts is suspended for the respective administrator ID.