Email alerts are email messages that are sent by your that inform you of critical events. You can look at the Alert status line in the Status portlet of the Summary tab to see if alerts are currently enabled.
Setting Up Email Alerts
Important:
To set up email alerts is a two-step procedure. First, you must enter the global email settings. Second, you must set up the
email alerts.
Email alerts are sent to the persons that you include in the list of configured email addresses. To configure sender email
settings, click the Tools tab, and then click the Set up email alerts link. For each person that you want to be notified, enter the following information:
Email address
Enter a fully qualified email address. For example, name@mycompany.com.
Information to send
Select one of the following options from the drop-down list.
Event only
The alert email contains only the event information. This setting is the default alert type.
Event + Profile
The alert email contains the event information and the storage array profile.
Event + Support
The alert email contains the event information and a compressed file that contains complete support information for the storage
array that has generated the alert.
Frequency
Select one of the following options from the drop-down list.
Every event
Sends an email whenever an event occurs. This setting is the default option.
Every x hours
Sends an email at the specified interval if an event occurred during that period. You can select this option only if the Information to send option is set to Event + Profile or Event + Support.