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2. Navigate to Users and select the username. On the User Details page, click on Notification
Methods → create new method.
3. Enter an intuitive, descriptive label for the method name, such as DBA day em ail, and provide
the correct email address. Remember, the labels for all notification methods are available in a
single list during probe creation, so they should be unique to your organization.
4. Select the checkbox if you desire abbreviated messages to be sent to the email address. T his
shorter format contains only the probe state, system hostname, probe name, time of message,
and Send ID. T he standard, longer format displays additional message headers, system and
probe details, and instructions for response.
5. When finished, click Create Method. The new method shows up in the User Details →
Notificat ion Methods tab and the Notification page under the top Monitoring category.
Click its name to edit or delete it.
6. While adding probes, select the Probe Notifications checkbox and select the new
notification method from the resulting dropdown menu. Notification methods assigned to probes
cannot be deleted until they are dis-associated from the probe.
1.2.4 .2. Receiving Notificat ions
If you create notification methods and associate them with probes, you must be prepared to receive
them. These notifications come in the form of brief text messages sent to the specified email address.
Here is an example of an email notification:
Subject: CRITICAL: [hostname]: Satellite: Users at 1
From : "Monitoring Satellite Notification" (rogerthat01@ redhat.com)
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 13:42:28 -0800
To: [e-mail]
This is Red Hat Monitoring Satellite notification 01dc8hqw.
Time: Mon Aug 26, 21:42:25 PST
State: CRITICAL
System: [hostnam e] ([IP address])
Probe: Satellite: Users
Message: Users 6 (above critical threshold of 2)
Notification #116 for Users
Run from: Red Hat Monitoring Satellite
As you can see, the longer email notifications contain virtually everything you would need to know about
the associated probe. In addition to the probe command, run time, system monitored, and state, the
message contains the Send ID, which is a unique character string representing the precise message
and probe. In the above message, the Send ID is 01dc8hqw.
Note
Since notifications can be generated whenever a probe changes state, simple changes in your
network can result in a flood of notifications. Notifications maybe redirected to a specific inbox
meant for notifications to avoid issues with priority mail. T he next section discusses redirecting
notifications.
1.2.4 .3. Redirecting Notifications
Upon receiving a notification, you may redirect it by including advanced notification rules within an
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