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Table 7-4. Elements for General Options
Element Description
<SendFromEmail> (Optional) Sets the address to use as the from address for all email alert
notifications. If you do not include this element,
vCenter Operations Manager sends messages from the default email sender
address in the vcenter-ops \user\conf\email.properties
configuration file.
<FilterRule> Element
The rest of the emailFilter.xml file contains one or more <FilterRule> elements. Each <FilterRule> element
defines a set of conditions for an alert and one or more email addresses to which to send notifications for all
alerts that meet those conditions. <FilterRule> should have a name attribute. The name attribute can be any
text that describes the filter rule.
Each <FilterRule> has one or more conditions, which are contained in a <Conditions> tag. Each <condition>
element includes a type setting and a value to match. In the sample file, the following conditions are used in
the first rule:
<Conditions>
<condition type="Application">Online Trading</condition>
<condition type="Tier">Online Trading:Web</condition>
<condition type=Level">Critical</condition>
</Conditions>
In this example, the rule contains three conditions. The first condition is of type Application and it checks for
the value Online Trading. The type setting defines the type of data to check for the matching value to determine
if the condition is met.
Table 7-5. Valid Type Settings
Type Description
AlertType Type of alert. For a list of alert types, see Table 7-3.
For example: <condition type="AlertType">ADMINISTRATIVE</condition>
AlertSubType Subtype of the alert. For the subtypes that you can use with each alert type, see Table 7-3.
For example: <condition type="AlertSubType">ENVIRONMENT</condition>
Application Name of a vCenter Operations Manager application. The condition matches if the alert is
for any resource in the application.
For example: <condition type="Application">OnlineTrading</condition>
Collector Unique name of a vCenter Operations Manager collector.
For example: <condition type="Collector">vCenter Operations
Collector</condition>
Level Minimum alert criticality level. Alerts of this level or above match this condition. Valid types
are NONE, INFO, WARNING, IMMEDIATE, and CRITICAL.
For example: <condition type="Level">immediate</condition>
ResourceKind Name of a resource kind in the format AdapterKind:ResourceKind.
For example: <condition type="ResourceKind">OPEN_API:DEMO</condition>
RootCauseTier Tier in an application. It is a match if one of the root causes of the alert is on the tier. You
must include the application name and the tier name in the format Application:Tier.
For example: <condition type="RootCauseTier">Online
Trading:Network</condition>
State State of the alert. Valid values are OPEN, ASSIGNED, SUSPENDED, and SUPPRESSED.
For example: <condition type="State">Open</condition>
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