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# Alerts and reports walkthrough

Email alerts and reports: SMTP, recipients, the 17 alert rules, the elected sender, and the daily, weekly and monthly reports with preview, send now and schedule. BoxLang+.

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## What it shows

1. **Where it lives**: Settings, then Notifications. Admin only, BoxLang plus.
2. **The main switch**: Alerts are off until you turn them on.
3. **How mail is sent**: BxLens sends the mail itself, over SMTP.
4. **The sender and the password**: The password is never typed in the console.
5. **Send a test mail**: See the answer of your SMTP server in plain words.
6. **Who gets mail**: Up to fifty people, each with their own filters.
7. **Severity and categories**: Warnings and critical, or critical only; none ticked means all.
8. **Reports, per person**: The last column: daily, weekly, monthly.
9. **Fifteen alert rules**: Server down to errors in the logs, all off.
10. **Switch an alert on**: Then set its severity, its limits and how often it repeats.
11. **Turn the whole thing on**: The main switch sends mail for the rules you chose.
12. **One server sends**: The elected sender: the lowest id that is alive.
13. **Firing now, and mails sent**: Firing mail once, reminders, then a resolved mail.
14. **Reports**: Daily, weekly and monthly, for the whole cluster.
15. **Preview the weekly report**: Nothing is sent by a preview.
16. **What is in a report**: Highlights, totals, and a table per server.
17. **Daily and monthly**: Same layout, a different period.
18. **Send one now**: To everyone subscribed, or to one address.
19. **Schedule**: Time and zone, weekday, day of the month.
20. **Let Lensy do it**: Ask in plain words, then approve the change.
21. **Free and BoxLang plus**: Notifications and reports are BoxLang plus; this is the current state.

## Read more

[Notifications](../console/notifications.md) and [Email reports](../console/email-reports.md).


See all the [walkthroughs](../walkthroughs.md).