Alert Notification Rule

Location: Available from the Alert Notification Configuration Window

An Alert Notification Rule defines the settings for sending a notification message when certain Alerts are reported.

Property Pages

Identification Page

Enter a name and an optional description for this rule.

Selection Rules

Options on this page determine which Alerts this rule will apply to.

Include messages with these severities

To select messages with certain severities, select the appropriate options here. If you do not check any options, the severity will be ignored and the rule will apply to all messages that meet the other criteria on this page.

If you want to send notification for all Error alerts, you can check the Error option and ignore the message category and message ID lists.

Include/exclude message categories

Here you can choose to include or exclude specific categories of message. When you select a category, the message list below will be filtered to show the messages for this category.

For each category you can check Include, Exclude, or neither. Your selections affect alert selection as follows:

• If you do not make any selections in this section (include or exclude), the message category will be ignored, and the rule will apply to all messages that meet the other criteria on this page.
• If you check the Exclude box for any category, all messages in that category will be ignored.
• If you do not check the Include box for any categories, the rule will apply to messages from all categories except those that you Exclude.
• If you check the Include box for at least one category, the rule will apply to message from only the categories that you have Included.

Include/exclude specific messages

Here you can choose to include or exclude specific messages. When you select a category above, the message list below will be filtered to show the messages for this category. Check the Show messages for all categories box to remove this filter and see the complete list of messages.

If you want the rule to apply to all messages in a category you do not need to make any selections here; just Include the appropriate category above. This ensures that any messages added to this category in the future will also be selected.

For each message you can check Include, Exclude, or neither. Your selections affect alert selection as follows:

• If you do not make any selections in this section (include or exclude), the message ID will be ignored, and the rule will apply to all messages that meet the other criteria on this page.
• If you check the Exclude box for any message, that message will be ignored.
• If you do not check the Include box for any messages, the rule will apply to all messages that meet the other criteria, except those that you Exclude.
• If you check the Include box for at least one message, the rule will apply only to the messages that you have Included.

Notification

Recipients

Select the recipients who should be notified when alerts are logged that meet the selection criteria.

Minimum interval

Use this option to limit how frequently notifications are sent for this rule. Once a notification message is sent for this rule, any subsequent alerts that match the rule will be ignored until the specified number of minutes have passed since the last notification.

Subject and Message

Enter a subject and body for the notification message, or leave blank to use the default system-generated subject and message.

You can use variable tokens to insert values such as the message ID, message, etc. Click the Text Edit button () to open a text editor with a list of the available variables.

Notification Severity

Specify the severity (importance) of this message. Notification Recipients, Addresses, and Groups can all be configured to receive only messages that meet specified severity criteria.