Alert destinations are the destination addresses that are specified for the delivery of email and . You can configure the to monitor and alert administrators (by email) of critical events on selected managed devices.
When you set up the Event Monitor, you perform these tasks:
You enter the message origination settings in the Configure Mail Server dialog.
Use the Alert Destinations dialog to enter the SNMP and trap destinations of the storage subsystem that you want to monitor and the email addresses to which the email alerts will be sent. Using this dialog, you can send alerts to multiple email addresses for multiple SNMP destinations. SNMP destinations are identified as follows:
You can configure the Event Monitor to run constantly in the background, regardless of whether the Enterprise Management Window (EMW) is active. If you did not install the Event Monitor separately, you can set up the Event Monitor function in the EMW; however, the Event Monitor runs only when the EMW is open.
Note:
If you have configured the Event Monitor to observe storage subsystems while the EMW is closed, you might receive duplicate alerts when the EMW is open.