Administrator’s Guide
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Using the Alert Manager
Configuring alerts
When you have enabled centralized alerting in both the Netshield and
VirusScan programs, you can begin configuring your alert notification
options.
Follow these steps to enable and configure Alert Manager options:
1. To access the Alert Manager settings from the Management Console,
click
Anti-Virus Domain(s)
, an
individual domain, a
Members
group, or an
individual machine, and then click the
Component
Configuration
toolbar button.
The Alert Manager NT dialog box appears.
2. Click the tab corresponding to the anti-virus product for which you want
to configure alerting.
3. Click
Configure
.
The Alert Manager Properties dialog box appears, with the Summary
page showing (
Figure 6-1 on page 166
).
The Alert Manager Properties dialog box includes nine different alert
methods, each with configuration options shown in individual property
pages. Click the tab corresponding to the alert method that you want to
configure to see the options available. When you have finished choosing
your options, click
OK
to save your changes and return to the
Configuration Manager. Click
Cancel
to close the Alert Manager
Properties dialog box without saving your changes.
The following sections describe the options available for each alert
method.
