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Overview

An email alert notifies recipients when a certain type of event occurs, for example, file quarantined, session aborted, host failure, system alert.  When an email alert is applied to a job, an alert is sent to all listed recipients whenever a selected event type is triggered by the job.

An email alert consists of a unique name, a selection of event types, and a list of email addresses.  The available event types depend on the job type.

When you create a job, you can select an existing email alert to apply to the job or you can create a new alert and apply it to the job.  Multiple email alerts can be applied to a job. You cannot modify an email alert while it is applied to a running job.  You cannot delete an email alert while it is applied to any job.  An alert can be applied to multiple jobs of the same type.  Email alerts are defined in the preferences for a job type.

See Email Configuration for configuring an SMTP email connection.  This must be configured before email alerts can be sent.

Managing Email Alerts

You can create, edit, copy, and delete alerts.

To manage email alerts:

1.Select Preferences from the Window menu.

The Preferences dialog appears.

2.Select the job type from the navigation tree and expand it.

3.Select Email Alerts from the navigation tree.

The Email Alerts page lists existing email alerts for that job type.