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ipMonitor offers a variety of Alerts that can notify users when a Monitor detects a problem. This tutorial walks you through the process of configuring and testing a Simple Email Alert. The Simple Email Alert sends a dynamically formatted email to a designated email address (or list of addresses).

This type of Alert:

• Can be sent to multiple recipients.
• Allows message formatting from a selectable list of options: To, From, Date, Subject, and Message Body.
• Allows individual Message Body content configuration for Failure Messages, Recovery Messages and Information Messages.

Note: For detailed information regarding the capabilities described above, please refer to the Alerts section of the ipMonitor Administrator's Guide.

This tutorial assumes that your computer meets the minimum requirements to run ipMonitor 8, and that you have the ipMonitor software currently installed on your system.

To get the most out of this tutorial, ensure that you have a Profile already configured within the ipMonitor software. If you have not yet configured a Profile, refer to the tutorial entitled Add an Alerting Profile.

Click the PDF icon to open a printable PDF version of this tutorial. It includes all the information found here, including images from the ipMonitor software, diagrams, and links to additional resources.

To add a Simple Email Alert, proceed with the following:

1. Log in to the ipMonitor Administration web interface.
2. Click the Alerts menu option.
3. Click the name of a previously configured Profile.
4. Click the Add Alert option, and then select Simple Email.

5. Enter a unique, descriptive name for the Alert in the Alert Name field.
6. Enter your email address in the Send an Email Message To field.
7. If you haven't previously set an ipMonitor Server Email Address value in the Server Settings screen, the Send Email From field will be blank. Enter an email address for ipMonitor to use when sending the email Alert in this field.

8. Click the OK button located at the bottom of the screen.

Once the Simple Email Alert has been added, you can test it against a Monitor. If you haven't added a Monitor to the Profile, please refer to the tutorial entitled Add an Alerting Profile for detailed instructions on performing this action.

1. From the Edit Profile screen, click the name of the Simple Email Alert you added.

2. From the Edit Alert screen, click the Force Test button.
3. Click OK when prompted to save any changes you may have made to the Alert configuration.
4. In the Test Alert box, click the radio button corresponding to the Monitor against which you wish to test the Alert. If needed, you can modify the message subject and body of the test email.

5. Click the Continue button located at the bottom of the Test Alert screen. While ipMonitor attempts to send the Alert to the recipient indicated, the Sending Alert... message will briefly appear on screen.

6. A success or error message will be displayed depending on the results of the test. If the Simple Email Alert test was successful, the email will have been sent to the specified recipient. Click Close to return to the Edit Alert screen.

For more information regarding Profiles, refer to the Alerts section of ipMonitor's Context-Sensitive Help system, then select About Profiles. The Context-Sensitive Help can be accessed by clicking the Help link located in the top right corner of ipMonitor's Administration web interface.

For information on other features and concepts related to those discussed in this article, refer to the following ipMonitor resources:

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Last Updated: August 1, 2006 | What did you think of this topic?