17.5. Receiving E-mail Notifications

If there is a SMTP server in your network, you can enable DB2 to send notification e-mails to you automatically through this SMTP server. This way, you do not have to monitor the administration notification log all the time: you will receive an e-mail when a problem occurs.

Note that you must set NOTIFYLEVEL to a value of 2 or higher for the Health Monitor to send any notifications to the contacts defined in its configuration. The HEALTH_MON Database Manager Configuration parameter must be set to ON (the default).

Follow these steps to enable DB2 to send notification automatically.

1.
Add contact information with the add contact command. Use this command to add all the e-mail addresses that should receive ...

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