How to Notify Administrators

The Notify Administrators action enables PowerChute plus to send broadcast messages to selected administrators when a specific event occurs. You select this action as a check box option in the "Event Actions" dialog box.

Use the following steps to configure the Notify Administrators action for an event.

  1. From the Configuration menu, choose Event Actions..., and highlight the event in the Events list in the dialog box.

  2. Mark the check-box for the Notify Administrators action.

  3. Click Options... next to Notify Administrators to open its dialog box.

  4. Configure which administrators to notify when the event occurs:

  5. To change the message, edit the Notification Message text.

    Note:
    Changing the Notification Message text has no effect on the default message text in the
    [PopupText] or [EventText] section of the PowerChute plus initialization file.

  6. Use the Wait field to define how long PowerChute plus waits before notifying administrators (5 seconds by default).

    Note:
    PowerChute plus notifies administrators only when the event lasts for the defined Wait period. For example, for a setting of 10, administrators are not notified if the event lasts less than 10 seconds.

  7. Click OK to save your changes and exit the dialog box.

See Notification of Administrators and Users and Format of a Notification Message for more information.