Add a notification to an alert
You can add notifications to an alert configuration that will email specified addresses when an alert is generated. You can also send notifications to an SNMP listener.
Before you begin
You must configure an alert before you add notifications. See Configure threshold alert settings and Configure trend alert settings.Email notifications include the following information:
- Alert Name
- The name specified for the alert.
- Alert Comment
- The description specified for the alert, if one was provided.
- Alert Expression
- The sequence of values that specified when to issue the alert.
- Value
- For threshold alerts, the value of the metric when the threshold was crossed. For trend alerts, a value of 1 indicates that the alert expression was true.
- Alert Time
- The time the alert conditions were met and the alert was generated.
- Alert Source
- The name of the metric source and any additional information available, such as the MAC address and IP address for devices.
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