# Creating the Remote Notification Rule

After you create and enable the remote alarm notification, the alarm information will be sent to the maintenance personnel's email address in emails. This enables the maintenance personnel to learn about the network status in time.

#### Context

You can use the configured mail or SMS server to send the alarm information to the specified email address to learn about the device status in time. For details about how to configure the notification server, see Notification Server.

#### Procedure

1. Choose Alarms > Alarm Notification > Remote Notification.
2. Click .
3. Set the parameters of the remote alarm notification rule, as described in Table 1.

   Table 1 Setting the parameters of the remote alarm notification rule
   Parameter | Description | Recommended Value
   --- | --- | ---
   Name | Name of the remote alarm notification. | The name can contain only 1 to 32 letters, Chinese characters, digits, hyphens, or underscores and must start with a letter, Chinese character, or underscore.
   Status | Indicates whether the remote alarm notification is enabled. | Select Enable or Disable.
   Start time | Time when the remote notification starts to take effect. The start time of the remote notification cannot be later than the end time. | Click to select the start time. Click OK or double-click the selected time.
   End time | Time when the validity of remote notification ends. The end time of the remote notification cannot be earlier than the start time. | Click to select the end time. Click OK or double-click the selected time.
   Sending language | Set language of the remote alarm notification. | The remote alarm notification can be in Simple Chinese or English.
   Sending contents | Set contents of the remote alarm notification. | Optional fields include Severity, Name, Type, Source, Occurred at, Clear Status, and Description.
   Task Description | Brief description about the remote alarm notification rule, helping the maintenance personnel learn about the rule without viewing the rule details. | Description contains a maximum of 128 characters.

4. Click Next. Select the type of resource on which the remote alarm notification will be applied from the resource tree on the left, and select the resource from the resource list on the right.

   Only one type can be selected. In the resources list on the right, you can search for the desired resources by name or IP address.

   Such resources are alarm sources. For example, if Zone is selected for resources, the remote notification function must be applied to alarms generated by the anti-DDoS component of the ATIC Management center. if AntiDDoS is selected for resources, the remote notification function must be applied to alarms generated by the AntiDDoS. If Management System is selected for resources, the remote notification function must be applied to alarms generated by the ATIC Management center system itself.

5. Click Next. Select the alarm to send for the remote notification.

   You can search for the desired alarms by setting the alarm severity level (critical, major, minor, or info). Then, select the specific alarms to send. For example, you can set Critical for the alarm severity level to search for all the critical alarms of the device, and select the specific alarm to send.

6. Click Next. Add the email address for receiving remote notification messages.

   - You can click to add an email address, or to delete an existing one. You can set relevant information about the email address to be added.
   - The email address must be specified.
   - A maximum of 10 email addresses can be added at a time. The email address must be unique.
7. Click Finish.

#### Result

- If the notification server parameters are pre-specified, the recipient email box will receive the alarm once the specified alarm occurs after the remote notification is created successfully.
- If the remote notification rule is expired, then the state of the rule in the list is Expired.

Parent topic: Managing Remote Notification

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