# Notifying VMware Alerts

[Notification profiles](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/help/configuring-notifications.html) enable you to receive alerts for virtual devices through various means such as sound alerts, email notifications, or script execution. You can associate any existing notification profile with your VCenter/ESX host to facilitate timely alerts.

To associate a notification profile to a virtual device:

1. Go to the snapshot page of the host (Navigate to **Inventory -> Devices** and then click on a device to view its snapshot page).
   
   ![Notifying VMware alerts in OpManager: Host details page for OPM server](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/help/images/vmfault.PNG)

2. Click on **Notification** icon present at the top.
3. If no profiles are associated, then click on **Associate** to view the list of notification profiles already created.
4. Select the notification profile that you want to associate and click **Associate**.

You can create a notification profile specifically for receiving alerts on events related to Virtual devices using the following steps:

- Go to **Settings -> Notifications -> Add Profile.**
- Select the required mode of notification (email / sms / web console etc) and fill in the required fields. Click [here](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/help/configuring-notifications.html) to know more about setting up notification profiles generally.
- Click on Next.
- Scroll down to the section that says **"When any Virtual Devices has a problem"**. Click on it and select the situations for which you wish to get alerted.
- You can get alerted either for General Alarms (like VM Power on / off, VM Failover failed, Host disconnect failed etc) or for virtual device related performance issues (such as threshold violations).
- Click on Next and continue the steps followed to setup a notification profile (click [here](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/help/configuring-notifications.html) to view the complete list of steps required for setting up notification profile).

To gain in-depth insights into OpManager's VMware monitoring practices, explore the following help documents:

- [Monitoring VMwares](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/help/monitoring-vmware-server.html)
- [Discovering VMware servers](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/help/vmware-discovery.html)
- [Monitoring VMware performance](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/help/monitoring-vmware-esx-server.html)
- [Configuring Thresholds for VMware Host and VMs](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/help/vmware-templates.html)
- [Managing VMware Alerts](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/help/vmware-alerts.html)
- [About VMware templates](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/help/vmware-templates.html)