System Center Guide

Before you can setup alert recipients in Operations Manager 2007, you must first establish at least one of four available Notification Channels. These channels are basically the means by which you’ll allow notifications to be set. Currently, the four channels include SMTP, IM, SMS or Command-line. Most environments will seek to use SMTP, but should have at least one other channel configured in the event of a mail service outage.

To configure a Notification Channel, in the Operations Console, select the Administration node, then click Settings and double-click on Notifications in the details pane. Select the tab you wish to configure and specify the appropriate settings based on your environment. To configure the SMTP channel you must specify at least the SMTP server and a return address. The email notifications are already configured to use numerous variables to specify what content the emails should contain.

Once you’ve configured your Notification Channel, you can then add notification Recipients.