About this task
After deploying the virtual appliance and completing the initial Unified Manager configuration, you should consider configuring your environment to trigger alerts and generate notification emails or SNMP traps.
You can complete the following tasks to properly configure your environment and to add alerts.
- Configure notification settings
If you want alert notifications sent when certain events occur in your environment, you must
supply an email address from which the alert notification can be sent. If your configuration uses
an SMTP server for email authentication, then you must provide the user name and password
for the server. If you want to use SNMP traps, you can select that option and provide the
necessary information.
- Enable remote authentication
If you want remote LDAP or Active Directory users to access the Unified Manager instance and
receive alert notifications, then you must enable remote authentication.
- Add authentication servers
If you enable remote authentication, then you must identify authentication servers.
- Edit global threshold settings
You can modify the threshold settings for aggregates, volumes, and certain types of protection relationships. These settings determine when an event should be generated, which can affect when an alert notification is sent.
- Add users
You can add several different types of local or remote users and assign specific roles. When you
create an alert, you assign a user to receive the alert notifications.
- Add alerts
After you have added the email address for sending notifications, added users to receive the
notifications, configured your network settings, and configured SMTP and SNMP options needed
for your environment, then you can assign alerts.