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How to add a server-based notification

Before you begin

Before configuring a notification message, you must configure the SMTP protocol of your email server. For more information on how to configure the SMTP protocol, see Setting up an SMTP protocol.

About this task

This email notification will alert specified users when the job server status changes from up to down or to up again. It will also alert the users when the job server is up and running but can not retrieve some monitoring information.

Procedure

  1. On the Notifications page, click Add on the toolbar to create a new notification.

    Example

  2. On the Notification panel to the right, set the following information:

    Field

    Description

    Category

    Select the Servers category from the drop-down list.

    Event

    Select the type of the event for which to send the notification:

    Servers

    Select On change of server status from the drop-down list to send an email alert each time the server is down or back to up and running.

    Enabled

    Select this check box to activate the notification service.

    Recipients

    Click to add a new recipient of the notification messages.

    Tasks

    Click to add the execution server to monitor, or click the Select All button to send an email when any of the servers is down.

  3. Click to show the Mails Selection dialog box.

    Example

  4. Select the check box(es) next to the user(s) you want to add to the notification Recipients list.
  5. Click Apply to close the dialog box.
    The selected emails display in the Recipients list in the Notification panel.
  6. Click to show the Job server selection dialog box.
  7. On the list, select the check box(es) corresponding to the servers to be monitored.
  8. Click Apply to close the dialog box.
    The selected servers display in the JobServers list in the Notification panel.
  9. On the Notifications page, click Save to validate the changes or click Cancel to ignore them.

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