Help for E-mail alerts
The appliance checks every five minutes for selected conditions that can indicate a problem with the appliance, and sends an e-mail message to warn administrators.
To prevent repeated e-mail messages warning of the same condition, a given condition can only trigger a new e-mail message once every 24 hours. However, any time a new e-mail message is triggered by a new condition, all currently existing conditions will be listed in the message.
For example, if the /home file system grows over 90% full at 8:00 (and the file system full condition is enabled with a threshold of 90%), the appliance will send an e-mail to administrators. The /home file system may stay over 90% full, but no new e-mail will ordinarily be sent until 8:00 the next day. However, if during that time the appliance discovers that one of its Web servers is not responding (and that condition is enabled), a new e-mail message will be sent to administrators, and that e-mail message will warn both of the Web server problem and that the /home file system is over 90% full.
The appliance tracks each condition separately. A condition can be reset by disabling then enabling it. For example, if the /home file system had been over its threshold, and an administrator disabled file system checking then enabled it again, a new e-mail would be sent the next time the appliance checked the file systems.
There are two pages to configure the e-mail alert function.
Use the Address List page to control which e-mail addresses will receive the e-mail alerts.
Use the Event List
page to control which conditions the appliance will monitor.