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View the Email Settings

You can onfigure the email settings to receive email alerts.

Follow these steps:

1. Click the resource tab on the Console.
2. From the left pane, navigate to Nodes, and click All Nodes.
3. On the center pane, select the node that you specified as Monitor in the Virtual Standby task, and click Login Agent.

   A new browser opens and you are automatically logged in to the Monitor server.

   Note: If a new browser window does not open, verify that the pop-up options for your browser allow all pop-ups or pop-ups only for this website.

4. Click the Virtual Standby tab.

   The Virtual Standby Summary screen appears.

5. From Expand All or Server Running from the Servers list, and click a node to view its Virtual Standby settings.
6. From the Navigation pane, expand Virtual Standby Tasks and click Virtual Standby Settings.

   The Virtual Standby Settings dialog opens.

7. Click the Preferences tab.
   • Missing heartbeat for source machine--Indicates that Virtual Standby sends alert notifications when the monitor server does not detect a heartbeat from the source server.
   • VM powered on for source machine configured with auto power ON--Indicates that Virtual Standby sends alert notifications when it powers on a virtual machine that was configured to power on automatically when a heartbeat is not detected.
   • VM powered on for source machine configured with manual power ON--Indicates that Virtual Standby sends alert notifications when it manually powers on a virtual machine.
   • VM storage free space less than--Indicates that Virtual Standby sends alert notifications when it detects insufficient free disk space on the defined hypervisor path. The detection occurs when the amount of free disk space is less than the user-defined threshold. The threshold can be defined either an absolute value (MB) or as a percentage of the capacity of the volume.
   • Virtual Standby errors/failure/crash--Indicates that Virtual Standby sends alert notifications when it detects an error that occurred during the conversion process.
   • Virtual Standby success--Indicates that the process of creating a virtual standby virtual machine completed successfully.
   • Hypervisor is not reachable--Indicates that Virtual Standby sends alert notifications when it detects that it cannot communicate with the ESX Server system or the Hyper-V system.
   • The Virtual Standby did not start successfully from the Recovery Point Snapshot--Indicates that the process of creating a virtual standby virtual machine from a recovery point snapshot did not complete successfully.

The email settings are viewed.