One of the most common tasks administrators want Enterprise Manager to perform is to send an email notification when a metric alert condition occurs. Specifically, Enterprise Manager monitors for alert conditions defined as incidents. For a given incident you create an incident rule set to tell Enterprise Manager what actions to take when an incident occurs. In this case, when an incident consisting of an alert condition defined by a metric extension occurs, you need to create an incident rule to send email to administrators. For instructions on sending email for metric alerts, see "Sending Email for Metric Alerts".

For information incident management see Using Incident Management.