Creating a rule for sending notifications about alerts

To create a rule for sending notifications about alerts:

1. In the main window of the program web interface, select the Settings section, Notifications subsection.
2. Go to the Notification rules tab.
3. Click the Add button.

   The New notification rule window opens.

4. In the To field, specify one or several email addresses to which you want to forward notifications.

   You can enter several email addresses if you separate them with commas.

5. In the Subject field, specify the subject of the message containing the notification.
6. If you want the program to insert the alert importance into the message subject, add the %importance% macro into the Subject field.
7. In the Notification type field, select Alerts.
8. In the Alert importance drop-down list, select the minimum alert importance for which you want to configure notifications to be sent regarding such alerts.

   For example, you can configure forwarding of notifications for only alerts that have high importance, or for only those that have medium or high importance.

9. In the Source or destination field, specify an IP address and network mask if you want to configure forwarding of notifications about alerts associated with a specific IP address or subnet address of the source or destination.
10. In the Email field, specify an email address if you want to configure forwarding of notifications about alerts associated with a specific address of the sender or recipient of email messages.
11. In the Components settings group, select the check boxes next to the names of one or several technologies if you want to configure forwarding of notifications about alerts generated by specific technologies.
12. Click the Add button.

The rule for sending notifications about alerts will be added to the list of rules.

Users with the Administrator and Security auditor roles cannot create rules for sending alert notifications.

See also Sending notifications Viewing the table of rules for sending notifications Creating a rule for sending notifications about the operation of program components Enabling and disabling a rule for sending notifications Modifying a rule for sending notifications Deleting a rule for sending notifications Filtering and searching notification forwarding rules by rule type Filtering and searching notification forwarding rules based on the notification subject Filtering and searching notification forwarding rules by email address Filtering and searching notification forwarding rules based on their status Clearing a notification forwarding rule filter

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