Enterprise Console: setting up email alerts

You set up email alerting as part of the policies you set up in Enterprise Console.

What to do

The following example describes how to set up email alerting for your Anti-Virus policy. The steps are similar for the other policies.

1. Open Enterprise Console.
2. In the Policies pane, double-click 'Anti-virus'.
3. Select or create a policy.
4. In the 'Anti-virus policy' dialog box, click 'Messaging'.
5. Click the 'Email alerting' tab. Select 'Enable email alerting'. In the Recipients panel, click 'Add' and enter the address you want virus alerts sent to. Then click 'Configure SMTP'.
6. In the 'Configure SMTP settings' dialog box, type the host name or IP address of the SMTP server.
7. Click 'Test' to send a test email alert.
8. In the SMTP 'sender' address text box, type an email address to which bounces and non-delivery reports can be sent.
9. In the SMTP 'reply to' address, type an email address to which replies to email alerts can be sent (alerts come from an unattended address).
10. Select the Language in which you want the email to be sent.
11. Click 'OK' and close the dialog boxes.