How do I create an alarm e-mail policy?

Purpose

An NFM-P administrator can create up to five policies for e-mail notifications with alarm notification rules and a list of recipients. When a filter is matched, an e-mail is sent to the list of recipients. The e-mail content is a set of text-based alarm fields and a link to the relevant functional area.

Note: You require specific permissions to use the Impact Analysis tool. Contact your system administrator for more information.

Your administrator must ensure that the outgoing SMTP e-mail server is configured.

LI alarms are not sent in the e-mails.

E-mails are not sent for alarm attribute change events, only for alarm creation. For example, if an alarm is created with a severity of major, and the severity is subsequently changed to critical, alarm e-mail policy filters for critical alarms will not include this alarm.

When you modify the e-mail policy properties form, the e-mail counts for the e-mail policy are reset. If you select a different filter for the e-mail policy, the e-mail counts are reset. If you modify the contents of the saved filter from the alarm table, the e-mail counts for the e-mail policy are not reset.

Steps
 

Choose Administration→Alarm Settings from the NFM-P main menu. The Alarm Settings form opens.


Click on the E-mail tab and click Create. The Alarm Email Filter (Create) form opens.


Configure the Name and Max Emails Per Hour parameters.


Select an alarm filter. To configure and apply an advanced search filter using the filter configuration form, see the NSP NFM-P User Guide for information.


Click on the Users tab, then on Add to create a list of e-mail recipients. The e-mail is sent to the e-mail address configured for the selected users.

You can add up to 20 users as recipients of an e-mail for each policy.


Save the changes and close the forms.

End of steps