Symantec 11281411 Administration Guide - Page 65

Setting up the Alert Management System 65 Configuring alert actions Table 2-1 Alert parameters Alert parameter Description The product source of the notification; for example, Symantec AntiVirus 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" on page 78. If the AMS2 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.