"
```
**Step 5:** Login into Check MK monitoring tool UI as a user which has admin privileges to configure the alert notifications.
**Step 6:** Under '**Setup**' menu, click on '**Users**' menu to create a new user for Check MK alert notifications.
**Step 7:** Click on '**Add**' button
**Step 8:** Enter username as '**cfx\_notifications**'. Select appropriate sites under '**Authorized sites**'. Under '**Security**' section, select '**Automatic secret for machine accounts**' and generate a secret.
Select '**Disable password**' option to disable the login to this account. Select the roles as '**Normal monitoring user**'
**Step 9:** Commit the changes.
**Step 10**: Under '**Setup**' menu, click on '**Notifications**' menu to create configure alert notifications for both **Host** and **Service** type problems.
**Step 11**: Configure alert notifications for '**Host**' type problems.
Click on '**Add rule**' button.
**Step 12**: Enter the '**Decsription**' as '**cfx\_host\_notification**'.
Select '**Notification Method**' as '**cfx-host-webhook-notification.sh**' from the drop down menu.
Under Contact selection section, select **cfx\_notifications** user that was created to enable the alert notification.
Select appropriate '**Sites**' to enable the alert notification.
**Step 13**: For '**Match host event type**' option, select appropriate options as shown below.
Click on **Save** button to save the alert notification rule.
**Step 14**: Configure alert notifications for '**Service**' type problems.
Click on '**Add rule**' button.
Enter the '**Decsription**' as '**cfx\_service\_notification**'.
Select '**Notification Method**' as '**cfx-service-webhook-notification.sh**' from the drop down menu.
Under Contact selection section, select **cfx\_notifications** user that was created to enable the alert notification.
Select appropriate '**Sites**' to enable the alert notification.
**Step 15**: For '**Match service event type**' option, select appropriate options as shown below.
Click on **Save** button to save the alert notification rule.
Below is the Alert Filed mapping table (for information only) between Check MK alert notification fields and CloudFabrix OIA's common data model fields for Alerts.
| **Check MK Alert Field** | **CloudFabrix OIA Alert Field** |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Alert\_NotificationType | alertType |
| Alert\_Nagios\_SourceType | Determines whether source alert is from
Host or Service type
|
| Alert\_ServiceNotificationId /
Alert\_HostNotificationId
| key (Service/Host) |
| Alert\_ServiceDescription /
Alert\_ServiceOutput
| message (Service) |
| Alert\_HostName | assetName |
| Alert\_HostAddress | assetIpAddress |
| Alert\_Nagios\_SourceType | assetType |
| Alert\_HostState /
Alert\_HostAddress (or)
Alert\_HostOutput
| message (Host) |
| Alert\_DateTime | raisedAt / clearedAt |
| Alert\_ServiceState/
Alert\_HostState
| severity (Service/Host) |
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