direct email support introduced in 12.0 patch 4 - how and where to set it?

[GeraldC1]

12.0 p4 fix

107. Dispatch manager does not support email addresses as message destination

Where and how do you set your email address directly?

[GeraldC1 · Accepted solution]

This fix allows adding email addresses into a threshold or analyst alert message destination directly.

Put the email address into the Profile Name field.

*Make sure to precede the "@" with a "\" as in the below example image.

With this fix in place and using a direct email address:

• Profile name not needed in DISPMAN config.
• Group name not needed in DISPMAN config,
• SMTP server IP address still needed in DISPMAN config in the Email - DefaultEmailService as illustrated in the below image of DISPMAN config:

HTH 

Here is a short video on how to utilise this new feature in 12.0 p4.