You use the Notifications page to manage your individual alert notification rules. The rules determine which vRealize Operations alerts are sent to the supported target systems.

How Notifications Work

You add, manage, and edit your notification rules from this page. To send notifications to a supported system, you must configure and enable the settings for outbound alerts. The supported outbound notification plug-ins include the Standard Email Plug-In, REST plug-in, SNMP Trap plug-in, and the Log File plug-in.

Before you can create and manage your notification rules, you must configure the outbound alert plug-in instances.

Where You Find Notifications

To manage your notifications, from the left menu, click Configure > Alerts, and then in the right pane, click Notifications.

Table 1. Notifications Options
Option Description
Toolbar options

Use the toolbar options to manage your notification rules.

  • Add. Opens the Add Rule dialog box where you configure the filtering options for the notification rule.
Click the horizontal ellipsis to perform the following actions.
  • Delete. Removes the selected rule.
  • Disable or Enable. Disables or enables the selected rule(s).
  • Export or Import. Export the selected notifications to a ".xml" file so that you can import it on another vRealize Operations instance.
Rule Name
Name you assigned when you created the notification rule. Click the vertical ellipsis to perform the following actions.
  • Edit. Allows you to edit the selected rule.
  • Clone. Allows you to clone an existing notification rule and edit the attributes of the cloned notification rule. You can create multiple alert notification rules so that you can send the same alert notifications to different outbound settings.
    Note: You can clone only one alert notification rule at a time.
  • Delete. Removes the selected rule.
  • Disable or Enable. Disables or enables the selected rule.
Instance

Name of the configured outbound alert instance for the notification rule.

Instances are configured as part of the outbound alerts and can indicate different email servers or sender addresses for alert notifications.

Enabled Displays if the rule is enabled or not.
Email Address

If the rule is for standard email notifications, the alert recipient email addresses are listed.

Object Name

If the rule specifies a notification for a particular object, the object name is listed.

Children

If the rule specifies a notification for a particular object and selected child objects, the child object types are listed.

Last Modified Displays the date on which the rule was last modified.
Modified By Displays the name of the user who last modified the rule.