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title: "Defining a System Alert Subscription"
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Admins can receive notifications for appliance alerts. Such alerts involve occurrences such as maintenance events, updates, reboots, system health issues, and general appliance errors. Alerts generate notifications; in turn, notifications can generate SNMP traps. (For information about system health alerts, see *<span style="color: #0000ff">[Managing](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42141194)</span>*[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42141194)*<span style="color: #0000ff">[and](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42141194)</span>*[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42141194)*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Tracking](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42141194)</span>* *<span style="color: #0000ff">[System](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42141194)</span>*[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42141194)*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Health](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42141194)</span>*.) To define a System Alert notification, do the following:

1. Click the **Settings** icon > **Notifications** > **Subscriptions** to begin creating notifications.
2. Click **Add** **Notification**.
3. In the **Category** drop-down menu, choose **System** **Alert**.
4. Choose the **System** **Types**: (you can select one or more types by CTRL-clicking them):
  - General alerts: **All** **Event,** **User** **Logins**, **User** **Logout,** **NetMRI** **Maintenance**, **Update** **Information**, or **General** **Errors**.
  - IP phone issues: **VoIP** **messages**.
  - System Health types: **System Hardware Failure, Software Health Alert, Processing Health Alert, Storage Health Alert, Network Health Alert, Platform Capacity Health Alert**, and **Collector Connectivity Health Alert**.
5. Choose the **Method** by which admins will receive Job notifications: **Email**, **SNMP**** Trap**, or **Syslog**.
  - For **Email**: select the **To****Users** to receive the notification. (Administrators can send notifications to anyone.  
Non-administrative users can send notifications only to themselves.)
  - Specify additional **To** **email** **address(es)** if needed. Separate multiple e-mail addresses by commas.  
Email notifications require correct SMTP servers to be configured in the appliance to send notifications to their destinations. See the *<span style="color: #0000ff">[Setting](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42370086)</span>*[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42370086)*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Notification](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42370086)</span>*[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42370086)*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Defaults](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42370086)</span>* topic for more information.
  - If necessary, click **Edit** **Schedule** to specify a schedule for the summary e-mail notification, or deactivate the **Summarize** checkbox to receive all notifications for each individual system alert.The **Summarize** checkbox sends a digest email of the system alerts for the selected category, providing a way to reduce email quantities sent to administrators' inboxes.
  - To manage notification email settings in more detail: click **Advanced** **Settings** to override default settings for sender information, message type, message subject, message content, and details. See *<span style="color: #0000ff">[Notification](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42272405)</span>*[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42272405)*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Content](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42272405)</span>*[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42272405)*<span style="color: #0000ff">[and](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42272405)</span>*[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42272405)*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Formatting](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42272405)</span>* and *<span style="color: #0000ff">[Email](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42272405/Notification+Content+and+Formatting#NotificationContentandFormatting-bookmark754)</span>*[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42272405/Notification+Content+and+Formatting#NotificationContentandFormatting-bookmark754)*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Formatting](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42272405/Notification+Content+and+Formatting#NotificationContentandFormatting-bookmark754)</span>*[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42272405/Notification+Content+and+Formatting#NotificationContentandFormatting-bookmark754)*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Guidelines](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42272405/Notification+Content+and+Formatting#NotificationContentandFormatting-bookmark754)</span>*[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42272405/Notification+Content+and+Formatting#NotificationContentandFormatting-bookmark754)*<span style="color: #0000ff">[for](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42272405/Notification+Content+and+Formatting#NotificationContentandFormatting-bookmark754)</span>*[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42272405/Notification+Content+and+Formatting#NotificationContentandFormatting-bookmark754)*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Individual](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42272405/Notification+Content+and+Formatting#NotificationContentandFormatting-bookmark754)</span>*[ ](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42272405/Notification+Content+and+Formatting#NotificationContentandFormatting-bookmark754)*<span style="color: #0000ff">[Notifications](https://infoblox-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NetMRI753/pages/42272405/Notification+Content+and+Formatting#NotificationContentandFormatting-bookmark754)</span>* for more information about placeholder notification variables and email formatting.  
If you select **Plain** **Text** as the message body, the HTML formatting is erased in the notification email.
  - For **SNMP** **Trap**: override the default **Server(s)** by entering a new IP address.
  - For **Syslog**: If necessary, override the default **Server(s)** and **Message**.
6. Click **Save**.