Unless you have a very small IT footprint, you probably can’t go through your environment often enough to make sure everything is performing as expected. And if you have high Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) objectives hanging over your head, it’s even more difficult. That’s where alert notifications can help. Once you identify the components in your infrastructure that you, or your business unit, are responsible for, it’s easy to set up alert notifications to warn you of potential problems in your environment.
Using a notification, you can send triggered alerts to an external alert notification system. For example, you can send alerts by using email. You connect vRealize Operations to the external alert notification system by configuring an outbound alert plugin.
The outbound alert plugin has different...
