The Manage Notification Groups panels allows you to create and manage the notification groups used when different notifications and warnings are distributed.

Figure 15.37. MySQL Enterprise Dashboard: Manage Notification Groups

Notification groups are collections of users who should be notified when advisor alerts occur. These users may have login credentials for the Dashboard but this is not a requirement.

You can create a group by clicking on the create group link. Specify a group name and add recipients. When adding a user an email address must be specified. If you are adding multiple users separate them with commas.

To modify an existing notification group, select the edit link next to the group name. Deleting a group simply requires clicking the delete link.

Figure 15.38. MySQL Enterprise Dashboard: Edit Notification Groups

If a rule triggers an alarm, an email will be sent to the members of the notification group specified when the rule was scheduled. For more information about scheduling rules see Section 15.7.2, “Scheduling Rules”.

To use this group for notification using the SMS interface, select the checkbox next to SMS. This will force the messages to be encoded suitable for sending using SMS. Messages will be sent using the configured SMS service.

You can also optionally select a notification group to be used when sending critical error messages (such as MySQL Enterprise Monitor Agent or MySQL Enterprise Service Manager failures) by selecting the checkbox next to MEM Admin.