Notifications and Alerts

Set up event notifications for system events by going to MONITORING AND ALERTS > NOTIFICATIONS AND ALERTS.

This section covers the following topics:

• Set up Notifications and Alerts
• Notifications
• Events

Set up Notifications and Alerts

To set up notifications and alerts:

1. Expand the navigation menu, ENTERPRISE RECON .

2. Go to MONITORING AND ALERTS > NOTIFICATIONS AND ALERTS.
3. On the top-right of the page, click + Create a Notification.
   
4. In Notification Label, enter a label for this set of notifications.
   

5. In Location, select the targets you want to set up notifications for.

   Global Admins can select All Targets to set up a global notification for all Targets.
6. In the Who To Notify section, select users to send notifications to:
   1. User: Send an alert or email to selected users.
   2. Role: Send an alert or email to all users belonging to selected roles. See User Roles.
   3. Email Address: Send an email to a specific email address.
7. In the Notification Options section, select the type of notification a user receives:
   1. Alert
   2. Email

Notifications

Notifications can be sent to users as:

• Alerts
• Emails

Alerts

Alerts sent to users are displayed under the notifications icon .

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Users can view a summary of alerts sent to them on the My Account Details page. To view a summary of alerts:

1. Click the notifications icon .
2. Click See all notifications.

Or:

1. Go to MY ACCOUNT > MY ACCOUNT DETAILS.
2. Click See My Notifications.
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Emails

Selecting Email under Notification Options has ER2 send email notifications to specified email addresses. The email address does not have to be registered to a user in ER2.

A Message Transfer Agent (MTA) must be set up for email notifications to work. See Mail Settings.

Events

You can configure ER2 to send a notification or an email alert for the following events:

*ER 2.0.21 and above.