Event recipients

To add and modify email and syslog notifications, use the information in this topic.

Use the Events Recipients option under the Events tab to add and modify email and syslog notifications.

The Event Recipients option enables you to manage who will be notified of system events. You can configure each recipient, and manage settings that apply to all event recipients. You can also generate a test event to verify the notification feature.

Click the Create button to create email and syslog notifications. The following illustration shows the Event Recipients window.

From the Create button select the Create E-mail Notification option to setup a target email address and choose the type of events for which you want to be notified. In addition, you can click Advanced Settings to select the starting index number. To include the event log in the email, select the Include the event log contents in the e-mail body check box. The following is an illustration of the Create E-mail Notification window.

From the Create button select the Create SysLog Notification option to setup the Host name and IP Address for the SysLog collector and choose the type of events for which you want to be notified. In addition, you can click Advanced Settings to select the starting index number. You can also specify the port you want to use for this type of notification. The following is an illustration of the Create SysLog Notification window.

To configure an existing email notification or system notification target click the target name. The following is an illustration of the Properties for Email Subject window that is used to configure existing email notification and system notification targets.

Select the Generate Test Event button to send a test email to a selected email target (as shown in the following illustration).

Select the Global Settings button to set a limit in which to retry the event notification, the delay (in minutes) between event notification entries, and the delay (in minutes) between attempts (as shown in the following illustration).

If you want to remove an email or syslog notification target, select the Delete button. The following window opens: