Configuring Email for Alerts

You can define the email addresses to receive metric and data alerts. When an alert triggers an email, the Data Collector sends an email to every address in the list.

To send email alerts, create an email account to send the alerts and define the email alert properties in the Data Collector configuration fileconfiguration properties.

For information about configuring these properties, see the email alert table in Configuring Data CollectorConfiguring Data Collector in the Data Collector documentation.

To view configuration options, click an unused section of the canvas.
In the Properties panel, click the Rules tab, and then click the Notifications tab.

On the Notifications tab, configure the following properties:


Notifications Property	Description
Email IDs	Email addresses that receive every email alert generated by the . You can use simple or bulk edit mode. In simple mode, click the Add icon to specify the first address and the Add Another icon to specify an additional address.
Error Information Level	Amount of information included in an email notification triggered by an error: All error details Only the error code Error notification with no details Note: Error details can include sensitive information.