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After you create the alert rules and distribute them to the runtime components, the Alert Engines on these components create alerts as necessary and store them locally. The consumption of these alerts and the notification of users is a task performed by the alert consumers.

You can use one or more of the following alert consumers:

  • If you have SAP Solution Manager available in your landscape, you can use it as alert consumer.

    We recommend using this consumer, since it provides a rich set of configuration options for managing notifications.

  • You can use the simple local alert consumer that sends notifications via e-mail or SMS.

    SAP includes such alert consumer both with AS ABAP and AS Java. This alert consumer provides only a basic set of features, and runs only on the systems in which you configure it. For more information, see Configuring Local Consumer on AS ABAP and Configuring Local Consumer on AS Java .

  • You can develop your own alert consumer that meets your requirements.

    You can do this using the APIs provided with the alerting infrastructure in SAP NetWeaver. You can do this when the alert consumption functionality provided by SAP in SAP Solution Manager and the simple local alert consumer is not available in your infrastructure, or when you want to implement specific features in your alert consumer.

    There are two kinds of API provided for alerting. The alerting API on Integration Directory allows you to search for alert rules, retrieve information about runtime components, as well as to subscribe or unsubscribe alert consumers to alert rules. The alerting API on the Alert Engine allows the alert consumers to retrieve alerts intended for them. Both APIs are provided as a Web service, and to use them you need to develop Web service clients. For more information, see Creating Alert Consumers , Alerting API on Integration Directory , and Alerting API on Alert Engine .

  • You can use a third-party solution for consuming the alerts.

    You can do this using the APIs provided with the alerting infrastructure in SAP NetWeaver.

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