Sending email alerts to administrators
An alert is a notification of a relevant problem on the Tivoli® Storage Manager server and is triggered by a server message. Alerts can be shown in the Operations Center and can be sent from the server to administrators by email.
Before you begin
- An SMTP server is required to send and receive alerts by email,
and the server that sends the alerts by email must have access to
the SMTP server.Tip: If the Operations Center is installed on a separate computer, that computer does not need access to the SMTP server.
- An administrator must have system privilege to configure email notification.
About this task
An email notification is sent only for the first occurrence of an alert. Also, if an alert is generated before you configure email notification, no email notification is sent for that alert.
- Send notification for individual alerts
- Send alert summaries
An alert summary contains information about current alerts. The summary includes the total number of alerts, the total number of active and inactive alerts, the oldest alert, the newest alert, and the most frequently occurring alert.
You can specify a maximum of three administrators to receive alert summaries by email. Alert summaries are sent approximately every hour.
Procedure
To configure email notification for administrators about alerts, complete the following steps on each hub and spoke server from which you want to receive email alerts:
Sending email alerts to multiple administrators
The following example illustrates the commands that cause any alerts for message ANR1075E to be sent in an email to the administrators myadmin, djadmin, and csadmin:
SET ALERTMONITOR ON
SET ALERTEMAIL ON
SET ALERTEMAILSMTPHOST mymailserver.domain.com
SET ALERTEMAILSMTPPORT 450
SET ALERTEMAILFROMADDR srvadmin@mydomain.com
UPDATE ADMIN myadmin ALERT=YES EMAILADDRESS=myaddr@anycompany.com
UPDATE ADMIN djadmin ALERT=YES EMAILADDRESS=djaddr@anycompany.com
UPDATE ADMIN csadmin ALERT=YES EMAILADDRESS=csaddr@anycompany.com
DEFINE ALERTTRIGGER anr0175e ADMIN=myadmin,djadmin,csadmin