User Guide

Sending Alert Messages
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3. Select the alerting method you want to use. Your choices are:
• Enable Alert Manager alerting. Click this button to send alert
events to an Alert Manager server somewhere on your network.
Choosing this option prevents you from sending alert events to a
Centralized Alerting directory.
To choose the destination server, click Configure to open the Select
Alert Manager Server dialog box.
Figure 5-2. Select Alert Manager Server dialog box
Next, enter the path to the directory that hosts the Alert Manager
server you want to use, or click Browse to locate the server on your
network.
You can use Universal Naming Convention (UNC) notation in the
text box to designate the computer that hosts the Alert Manager
server, or you can enter just the computer name. The Alert Manager
Client Configuration utility will validate the form of the name you
enter here, but will not verify that the Alert Manager server exists
on the target computer. This allows laptop and other remote users
to designate an Alert Manager server even when they are not
connected to your network.
If you have Active Directory Services installed on your computer,
clicking Browse displays a list of logical Alert Manager server
names. If you do not have Active Directory installed, the display
will show your entire directory tree. In that case, consult your
system administrator to learn which computer hosts the Alert
Manager server you want to use.
By default, the client utility will use Active Directory lookup to
locate a published Alert Manager server if you have Active
Directory Services installed on this computer and running on your
network. To prevent the client utility from doing so, select the
Disable Active Directory Lookup checkbox, when it appears.