How To Create Notifications

Steps

1. In the left-hand navigation menu, click notification rules.

   The HTML user interface displays the notifications page, which lists the notifications already saved in to the database.

2. In the top row of the table listing rules, enter a name and a brief description for the rule you want to create, and click create.

   The HTML user interface displays the Notification Rules Details page.

   Use the controls on this page to specify:

   • the event or events that will trigger the notification

   • the email address that the notification should be sent to.

3. Select an event type from the Event Type drop-down list, or select a severity level.

   Events

   You can create a notification rule for any of the following events:

   • any event that occurs

   • a plan starts

   • a plan ends abnormally

   • a plan completes normally

   • a comparison starts

   • a comparison ends abnormally

   • a comparison ends normally

   • any system event occurs

   • any administrative event occurs

   • a custom event occurs

   Severity Levels

   The severity levels you can choose from are:

   • Information

   • Warning

   • Error

   You can specify whether you want the notification to be triggered when an event of a particular severity occurs, or whether an event of that severity or higher occurs. To determine what the severity of a particular type of event is, refer to Table 8–2.

4. Choose This Severity Only or This Severity or Worse from the drop-down list.

5. If you want to select events based on the messages they automatically generate, you can specify part or all of an event text message in the event text contains field.

   If you want to match a specific Event message, refer to the list of event messages in Table 8–1. You can use special character * to match any number of characters.

6. If you want to specify that this rule applies only when events occur on a particular host or a particular host set, enter the name of a hosts or hosts in the on host field or select a host set from the on host set drop-down list. To specify multiple hosts by name, lists the names in the on host field and separate them with spaces, semicolons, or commas.

7. Enter an email address for the recipient of this notification.

   You can specify multiple addresses by separating them with spaces, semicolons, or commas.

8. When you have finished specifying the notification rule, click save.

   The HTML user interface saves the notification rule, which will now be listed on the Notification Rules page.