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Defining Alert-groups and Recipients

To manage Groups and Recipients, click the Add, Modify or Delete Alert Groups and Recipients button on the "Customize E-mail alerting" window or use the control with the same name on the "Configuring Alerting" window. The "Alert Groups and Recipients" window opens.

Adding an new Alert-group.

1. Right-click anywhere in the Alert Groups box and choose Add a new Alert-group.
2. The Add an Alert-group window opens.
   
   
   
   
3. Enter an arbitrary non-existing group number into the Group# box. This number is only used internally by Monitor one and has no further meaning. Enter a descriptive name for the group into the Group description box.
4. Press the Save button.
5. The new group is added to the Groups box.

Removing an Alert-group

1. Remove all recipients from the group that you are about to remove.
2. Right-click the Alert-group in the Alert Groups box and choose Delete this alert-group.

The Default group (Group 0) cannot be removed!

Adding a recipient

1. Ensure that the Alert-group, to which a new recipient is to be assigned, exists!
2. Right-click anywhere in the Alert Recipients box and select Add a recipient.
3. The Add a recipient window opens.
   
   
   
   
4. Use the Alert-group box to select the correct Alert-group.
5. Enter a valid e-mail address into the Email address box.
6. Eventually (if you are using PageGate from Notepager.com as your Message gateway) specify a PageGate username.
7. Press the Save button.

Removing a recipient:

1. Right-click the recipient to remove in the Recipient box and select Remove this recipient.

Each device on the network map has an Alert-group assigned to it. The Alert-group is a property of a device. To assign or modify the Alert-group for a device, switch to Designer-mode, right-click a device on the map and choose Modify device.

PageGate is rich featured third party Message Gateway software from NotePager.com http://www.notepager.com. PageGate provides powerful options to define users along with their properties (cell-phones/pager numbers, email addresses etc). Monitor one allows you to assign a PageGate username to each recipient, keeping the Groups and Recipients functionality intact! More information on PageGate further on in this document!