Forwarding alerts to email accounts

You can forward alerts that are generated by the platform to specific email accounts.

Who needs to complete this task?
To configure alert forwarding, you must have one of the following permissions:
  • Administer platform
  • Manage configurations
When do you need to complete this task?
Complete this task if you want to forward alerts that were issued by Cloud Pak for Data to specific email accounts.

Before you begin

You must enable email notifications before you can forward alerts to email accounts.

About this task

You can send alerts to:

Platform users with the Manage platform health permission
Platform users receive alerts at the email address that is associated with their username. The platform users can click the link in the email to access more information about the alert.
Other email recipients
You can optionally forward alerts to users who don't have access to the platform. The alerts can keep these users informed about the health of platform.

Procedure

To configure alert forwarding to email accounts:

  1. Log in to the web client.
  2. From the navigation menu, select Administration > Configurations and settings.
  3. Click Alert forwarding.
  4. On the Email tab, click Add recipients.
  5. Specify the users that you want to add:
    • On the Users page, select platform users to send alerts to.
    • On the Other email recipients page, enter an email address and click Add recpient to list. Repeat this step for each email address that you want to forward alerts to.
  6. Click Save.

Results

The platform sends alerts to the specified email accounts.