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5 Click OK to save your configuration.
vCenter Operations Manager starts the alert handler instance.
Start or Stop an Alert Handler Instance
You can start and stop alert handler instances from the vCenter Operations Manager user interface.
NOTE When you create an alert handler instance, vCenter Operations Manager starts it for you.
Procedure
1 Select Admin > Configure Outbound Alert.
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.
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