Symantec 10551441 - AntiVirus Corporate Edition Administrator's Manual page 65

Table 2-1 Alert parameters
Alert parameter Description
<Source> The product source of the notification; for example, Symantec
AntiVirus
<Description> More information about the nature of the notification; for example,
"Symantec AntiVirus services shutdown was successful"
The Message dialog box includes a text box in which you can enter as many as
256 characters to be used as the text of the message that you want to send. You
can use the variables in Alert parameters to insert information generated by the
alert. Parameters are delimited by < and > characters. Each parameter
placeholder that you add to the Message text box is substituted with
corresponding alert information when an alert occurs.
See Figure 2-1.
Figure 2-1 Alerting System Notification
See "Testing configured alert actions"
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If the AMS alerting system detects a message larger than 1 KB, the message will
not be delivered. If you have configured a default alert message, it will be
delivered instead. You can configure this default alert to notify you when a
message exceeds 1 KB.
To configure a default alert message
1 In the Symantec System Center console, right-click the server group, and
then click All Tasks > AMS > Configure.
2 Click Default Alert, and then click Configure.
3 Click Message Box, and then click Next.
4 Select a computer on which to execute the action, and then click Next.
Setting up the Alert Management System
Configuring alert actions
on page 78.
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