Configuring properties for alerts

IBM® Business Monitor manages action services and event emissions using Monitor action services. The Monitor action services receive situation events emitted by applications, select appropriate actions based on user-defined rules and policies, and invoke one or more actions in the form of alerts.

A system administrator configures user registries that the Monitor action services can use to look up users' information.

The federated repositories and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) user registries contain all users who are allowed access to a system. You can run searches against these registries to obtain a list of users who can receive alert notifications. You also can use them to map users' user IDs and email addresses. If a group contains a group, users that are members of the nested group are not notified.