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6 To edit an email address for a condition, select the address and click the Edit icon.
Option Description
Address type
Select email to send both the message subject and text, or SMS to send
only the message subject to the email address.
Address value
Type the destination email address.
Resend value
(Optional) If the email address should receive messages at intervals while
the alert condition remains in effect, type a value in the Resend value text
box. For example, type 60 to send an alert notification email message every
hour as long as the alert condition is met.
Delay value
(Optional) To specify a delay between the time an alert meets the
conditions of the filtering rule and when vCenter Operations Manager
sends the first message to the email address, type a value in the Delay
value text box. For example, you might want to delay sending the message
if the recipient should be notified only if the condition is not corrected
within a specific period of time.
7 Save your changes.
Option Action
Save your changes to the currently
open file
Select Actions > Save.
Save your changes to a different file
Select Actions > Save As. The plug-in only reads emailFilter.xml.
8 Select Actions > Close to close the Configuration File editor.
9 To make your changes take effect, restart the email filter plug-in.
a In vCenter Operations Manager, select Admin > Configure Outbound Alert.
b Select the email filter plug-in instance and click the Stop icon.
c Select the email filter plug-in instance and click the Start icon.
Delete a Filtering Rule
If you do not need a filtering rule, you can delete it.
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 84.
Procedure
1 To start the Configuration File editor, use any standard Windows method to run the file
FilterPluginConfEditor.jar.
FilterPluginConfEditor.jar is in the vcenter-ops\user\plugins\outbound\filter_alertplugin\conf
directory.
2 Select Actions > Open and open emailFilter.xml.
3 Select the filtering rule from the list on the right.
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