Configuring event notification

You can set notification so that users receive emails when critical events occur.

Before you begin

You must be assigned the Hardware administration role with permission to Manage hardware resources (Full permission) to perform these steps.

In addition, your SMTP server must be specified under the Mail Delivery section on the System Settings page.

About this task

You can use the console or the command line interface to complete this task. For the command line information, see the Related information section.

1. Click System > System Settings.
2. Expand Events.
3. In the Send Notification section, click Configure Notification.
4. In the window that appears, specify users and email addresses to which to send the notification emails when new problems are opened. Configure the following settings:
   • Select the Send notification check box to enable email notification.
   • From the Available Users list, select one or more users or enter a valid email address in the Add Extra Emails box.
   • To add users to the notification list, click the right arrow. To remove users from the notification list, select them and click the left arrow.
5. Click OK to complete your selections.
6. To send a test notification email to verify that email messages are sent to the notification list, click Test Send notification.
7. Click Save to save your settings.