{
  /* An example alert configuration.  See the EcAlerter documentation for
   * details on what you can configure here.
   */
  Debug = NO;                   /* Defaults ... do not log email alerts sent */

  /* Default setup is to alert for high priority alarms but not
   * send out reminders ... if reminders are required, set the
   * interval to a resonable level.
   */
  AlertAlarmThreshold = 2;      /* Send alerts for critical and major alarms */
  AlertReminderInterval = 0;    /* Do not send out reminder alerts */

  /* The default email configuration is usual;ly correct for ht host and
   * port but almost always wrong for the sender address ... edit it!
   */
  EmailFrom = "alerter.test@localhost.localdomain";
  EmailHost = "127.0.0.1";
  EmailPort = "25";

  Rules = (

    /* We start by adding rules to handle alerts for cleared alarms,
     * by adding some extra text to the basic alarm message.
     * A clear has a sevrity code of 5 so we can match those alarms
     * here and leave all other alarms to be matched later.
     */
    {
      SeverityCode = "5";
      DurationAbove = "59";     /* Alarm outstanding for an hour or more */
      Rewrite = "{Original}\n\nCleared after {Hours} hours.";
    },
    {
      SeverityCode = "5";
      DurationBelow = "60";     /* Alarm outstanding for under an hour */
      Rewrite = "{Original}\n\nCleared after {Minutes} minutes.";
    },
    {
      SeverityText = "5";
      Subject = "Clear {Identifier}";
      Email = (
        "myaccount@localhost.localdomain"
      );
      Stop = YES;               /* Don't go on to any general alerts */
    },

    /* Now the remaining uncleared alarms ... a pattern matching any
     * non-empty SeverityText will match all alarms (including clears,
     * but we have already dealt with those).
     */
    {
      SeverityText = "..*";
      DurationAbove = "59";     /* Alarm outstanding for an hour or more */
      Rewrite = "{Original}\n\nAlarm outstanding for {Hours} hours.";
    },
    {
      SeverityText = "..*";
      DurationBelow = "60";     /* Alarm outstanding for under an hour */
      Rewrite = "{Original}\n\nAlarm outstanding for {Minutes} minutes.";
    },
    {
      SeverityText = "..*";
      Subject = "Alarm {Identifier}";
      Email = (
        "myaccount@localhost.localdomain"
      );
      Stop = YES;               /* Don't go on to any general alerts */
    },

    {
      /* Fallback rule ... there are no 'matching' fields in this
       * rule, so it matches any message which has not already been
       * matched by a rule containing 'Stop=YES'
       * All previously unmatched messages get emailed.
       */
      Email = (
        "myaccount@localhost.localdomain"
      );
      /* Log all alerts.
       */
      Log = ("file:alertlog");
    }
  );
}