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GFI Network Server Monitor Global alerting options • 111
• Message – Specify the contents of the message body. We
recommend that in the message body, you include details related
to the event which triggered the alert. By default the message
body includes the following information:
 %PRODUCTNAME% email alert – Product short name (i.e.
GFI N.S.M.)
 Date: %DATE% - The date when the alarm was triggered.
 Time: %TIME% - The time when the alarm was triggered.
 Check name: %CHECK_NAME% - The monitor check which
triggered the alarm.
 Target computer: %CHECK_TARGET% - The computer on
which the event occurred.
 Status: %CHECK_RESULT% - The current state of the
monitor check which triggered the event (E.g., Failed
 Explanation: %CHECK_EXPLANATION% - Details on the
result of the executed check.
• Format – Define the message format by selecting one of the
following:
 Plain text – Send the email in plain text.
 Rich text – Send the email in HTML.
NOTE: For more information on variables and message templates,
please refer to the ‘Message Template’ section in this chapter.
Global settings for network alerts
NOTE 1: GFI Network Server Monitor makes use of ‘net send’ to send
network alerts. Make sure that you enable the ‘Messenger’ service
(svchost.exe –k netsvcs) on the computers which will send and
receive network messages.
NOTE 2: Network alerts are configured from the user properties. For
more information on the configuration of network messaging, please
refer to the ‘Configure user properties’ section in the ‘Users and
Groups’ chapter.