Configure email settings for notifications
You must configure an email server and sender before the ExtraHop system can send alert notifications or scheduled reports.
Next steps
After you confirm that your new settings are working as expected, preserve your configuration changes through system restart and shutdown events by saving the running configuration file.Configure an email notification group
Add a list of email addresses to a group, then select the group when you configure email settings for an alert or scheduled report. Although you can specify individual email addresses, email groups are an effective way to manage your recipient list.
Add a new notification email address on an Explore or Trace appliance
You can send system storage alerts to individual recipients. Alerts are sent under the following conditions:
- A physical disk is in a degraded state.
- A physical disk has an increasing error count.
- (Explore appliance only) A virtual disk is in a degraded state.
- (Explore appliance only) A registered Explore node is missing from the cluster. The node might have failed, or it is powered off.
- Log in to the Administration settings on the ExtraHop system through https://<extrahop-hostname-or-IP-address>/admin.
- In the Network Settings section, click Notifications.
- Under Notifications, click Email Addresses.
- In the Email address text box, type the recipient email address.
- Click Save.
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