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2 Select the alert handler instance.
Option Action
Start the alert handler instance
Click the Start button on the toolbar at the top of the page. The Alert Handler
Status column shows Started when the instance is activated.
Stop the alert handler instance
Click the Stop button on the toolbar at the top of the page. The Alert Handler
Status column shows Stopped when the instance is deactivated.
Delete an Alert Handler Instance
If you do not need an alert handler instance, you can delete it.
Procedure
1 Select Admin > Configure Outbound Alert.
2 Select the alert handler instance and click the Delete Alert Handler icon.
3 Click Yes to confirm the deletion.
Configuring Email Alert Notifications
Configuring email alert notifications involves adding filtering rules, defining email templates, and configuring
email alert notification settings.
A filtering rule is a set of conditions and email addresses. The vCenter Operations Manager email plug-in uses
filtering rules to send email alert notifications to the proper users based on the affected application, resource
kind, alert level, and other criteria.
An email template definition specifies which email template file to use for a given alert type, subtype, and
status. An email template file defines the body text of an email alert notification.
vCenter Operations Manager provides several default email template files. You can also create your own
custom email template files. In general, you use the default email template files for most notifications and
create custom email template files for users that require different information in their notifications. You can
create custom email template files before or after you configure email template definitions.
You typically have more email template file definitions than email template files. Most email template
definitions point to the same email template file, even though they are for different combinations of alert types
and recipients.
Add a Filtering Rule
A filtering rule is a set of conditions and email addresses. The vCenter Operations Manager email plug-in uses
filtering rules to send email alert notifications to the proper users based on the affected application, resource
kind, alert level, and other criteria.
You define filtering rules in the emailFilter.xml file, which is in the vcenter-
ops\user\plugins\outbound\filter_alertplugin\conf directory.
If you are using the vCenter Operations Manager vApp, edit the emailFilter.xml file on the second virtual
machine.
For vCenter Operations Manager Standalone, you can edit emailFilter.xml directly or you can use the
Configuration File editor. This procedure describes how to use the Configuration File editor.
For the vCenter Operations Manager vApp, you must edit emailFilter.xml directly. You cannot use the
Configuration File editor with the vCenter Operations Manager vApp. For descriptions of the XML elements
in emailFilter.xml, see “emailFilter.xml File,” on page 92.
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