Set up notifications

The DB2 Administration Server (DAS) stores a contact list that is used to notify administrators by e-mail or pager when certain conditions arise. You can store the contact list locally on each server, or the DAS can maintain a global contact list on a particular server. Use remote or local contact lists for global notification. Servers using the a global contact list must be able to communicate with each other. Maintaining a global contact list allows for greater control over the list. In a partitioned database environment, one global contact list should be used by all participating database partitions.

Click Set up your DB2 server to send notifications to have your DB2® product automatically send e-mail or pager notifications to administrators when a database needs attention. Alternatively, you can click Do not set up your DB2 server to send notifications at this time to skip the set up of e-mail or pager notifications. If you do not set up your DB2 product to send notifications, the health alerts are still recorded in the administration notification log.

An SMTP server sends e-mail and pager notifications to your administration contact. In the Notification SMTP server field, type the TCP/IP host name of the SMTP server that will be used to send e-mail and pager notifications. If you do not want to enable notification now, you can do so later. For information about enabling notification after installing your DB2 product, see the following topics:

Specify where the contact list will be stored: