Change Alert Notifications Tool

You can use the Change Alert Notifications tool to define the alerts that are sent when specific events happen and to define the recipients who receive the alerts.

  • On the Alert Notifications E-mail Address tab, you can specify one or more e-mail addresses of the people who should receive alert notifications. For more information, see Alert Notifications E-mail Address tab.
  • On the Alert Notifications Event Log Errors tab, you can choose to have an alert appear in the server performance report if event log errors occur. For more information, see Alert Notifications Event Log Errors tab.
  • On the Alert Notifications Performance Counters tab, you can choose to have an alert appear in the server performance report if a performance counter exceeds its set threshold. For more information, see Alert Notifications Performance Counters tab.
  • On the Alert Notifications Services tab, you can choose to have an alert appear in the server performance report when a service is not running. For more information, see Alert Notifications Services tab.
  • You can view threshold information and change the threshold value for one of the preconfigured performance counters that Windows SBS provides. For more information, see Edit Threshold.