IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Version 7.1

SET ALERTEMAIL (Set the alert monitor to email alerts to administrators)

Use this command to enable alerts to be sent to specified administrators by email.

Alert monitoring must be started, and the monitoring settings must be configured to send alerts by email.

You can use the server to email alerts to an administrator by using the following set of commands:

Verify that alert monitoring is set to on by issuing the QUERY MONITORSETTINGS command.
Start the alert monitor on the server by issuing the SET ALERTMONITOR command.
Add administrator names to one or more alert triggers by issuing the DEFINE ALERTTRIGGER or UPDATE ALERTTRIGGER command.
Set up the administrator name to receive alerts by email. Administrators must have ALERT=YES and an EMAILADDRESS defined. Issue the REGISTER ADMIN or UPDATE ADMIN command.
Define the SMTP host server that is used to send email, by issuing the SET ALERTEMAILSMTPHOST command.
Define the SMTP port by issuing the SET ALERTEMAILSMTPPORT command.
Define the email address of the sender of the alerts by issuing the SET ALERTEMAILFROMADDR command.

Privilege class

To issue this command, you must have system privilege.


>>-Set ALERTEMail--+-ON--+-------------------------------------><
                   '-OFf-'

ON: Specifies that alerts can be sent to specified administrators by email.
OFf: Specifies that alerts cannot be sent to specified administrators by email.

Enable alerts to be sent by email by issuing the following command:

set alertemail on

Table 1. Commands related to SET ALERTEMAIL
Command	Description
QUERY MONITORSETTINGS (Query the configuration settings for monitoring alerts and server status)	Displays information about monitoring alerts and server status settings.
SET ALERTEMAILFROMADDR (Set the email address of the sender)	Specifies the email address of the alert sender.
SET ALERTEMAILSMTPHOST (Set the SMTP mail server host name)	Specifies the SMTP mail server host name that is used to send alerts by email.
SET ALERTEMAILSMTPPORT (Set the SMTP mail server host port)	Specifies the SMTP mail server port that is used to send alerts by email.
SET ALERTSUMMARYTOADMINS (Set the list of administrators to receive alert summaries by email )	Specifies the administrators that want to receive alert summaries by email.