Configuring The Notifications For The Rule - McAfee EPOLICY ORCHESTRATOR 4.0.2 Product Manual

Sending Notifications
Creating and editing Notification rules
2 If you selected Send a notification if multiple events occur within, you can choose
to send a notification when the specified conditions are met. These conditions are:
• When the number of affected systems is at least a defined number of systems.
• When the number of events is at least a defined number of events.
• Either (by selecting both options).
NOTE: You can select one or both options. For example, you can set the rule to send a
notification if the number of affected systems exceeds 300, or when the number of events
exceeds 3000, whichever threshold is crossed first.
3 If desired, next to Throttling, select At most, send a notification every and define an
amount of time that must be passed before this rule can send notification messages again.
The amount of time can be defined in minutes, hours, or days.
4 Click Next.

Configuring the notifications for the rule

Use this task to configure the notifications that are triggered by the rule on the Notifications
page of the Notification Rule Builder wizard. These can be email messages, SNMP traps, or
external commands. The size of the message depends on the target, the type of message, and
the number of recipients of the message.
You can configure the rule to trigger multiple messages, SNMP traps, and external commands
by using the + and - buttons next to the drop-down list for the type of notification.
Task
For option definition click ? on the page displaying the options.
1 If you want the notification message to be sent as an email, or text pager message, select
Email Message from the drop-down list.
a Next to Recipients, click ... and select the recipients for the message. This list of
available recipients is taken from Contacts (Configuration | Contacts). Alternatively,
you can manually type email addresses separated by a comma.
b Type the Subject line of the message. Optionally, you can insert any of the available
variables directly into the subject.
c Type any text you want to appear in the Body of the message. Optionally, you can
insert any of the available variables directly into the body.
d Select the language in which you want the variables to appear from the Replace
variables with their values in drop-down list.
e Click Next if finished, or click + to add another notification.
2 If you want the notification message to be sent as an SNMP trap, select SNMP Trap from
the drop-down list.
a Select the desired SNMP server from the drop-down list.
b Select the desired language in which you want the variables to appear from the Replace
variables with their values in drop-down list.
c Select the Variables to include in the SNMP trap.
• Notification rule name
• Rule defined at
McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 4.0.2 Product Guide
• Rule group
• Selected products
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