Configuring alerts recipients

GFI EndPointSecurity enables you to configure other profile accounts (apart from the default GFI EndPointSecurity Administrator account) to hold the contact details of users intended to receive e-mail alerts, network messages and SMS messages.

Alert recipients are not Active DirectoryA technology that provides a variety of network services, including LDAP-like directory services. (AD) users and/or user groups, but are profile accounts created by GFI EndPointSecurity to hold the contact details of users intended to alerts.

This section contains information about:

• Creating alert recipients
• Editing alert recipients properties
• Deleting alert recipients

Creating alert recipients

To create a new alert recipient:

1. Click Configuration tab > Options sub-tab.
2. From Configure, click Alerting Options > Users sub-node.
3. From the left pane, click the Create user….
4. For more information about configuring the settings to create a new recipient, refer to Configuring the alerts administrator account.

Editing alert recipient properties

To edit alert recipient’s properties:

1. Click Configuration tab > Options sub-tab.
2. From Configure, click Alerting Options > Users sub-node.
3. From the right pane, right-click the user you want to edit and select Properties.
4. For more information about configuring the settings to edit a recipient, refer to Configuring the alerts administrator account.

Deleting alert recipients

To delete an alert recipient:

1. Click Configuration tab > Options sub-tab.
2. From Configure, click Alerting Options > Users sub-node.
3. From the right pane, right-click the user you want to edit and select Delete.
4. Click Yes to confirm deletion.