About Call Home Alert Groups

An alert group is a predefined subset of Call Home alerts supported in all switches in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family. Alert groups allow you to select the set of Call Home alerts to be received by a destination profile (predefined or user-defined). A Call Home alert is sent to e-mail destinations in a destination profile only if that Call Home alert belongs to one of the alert groups associated with that destination profile.

Using the predefined Call Home alert groups you can generate notification messages when certain events occur on the switch. You can customize predefined alert groups to execute additional show commands when specific events occur and to notify you of output besides that of the predefined show commands.

To associate an alert group with a destination profile using Fabric Manager, follow these steps:

  1. Expand Switches, expand Events, and select Call Home in the Physical Attributes pane.
  2. Click the Profiles tab in the Information pane.
  3. Click the Alert Groups column in the row for the profile you want to associate.
  4. Click an alert group to select it for association.
  5. You see a check next to that alert group. To deselect it and remove the check, click it again.
  6. Click the Apply Changes icon.


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