How to setup cPanel email notifications

• Applies to: Legacy DV & VPS Hosting
  
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Time Needed: 10
  • Tools Required: Account Center access
• Applies to: VPS Hosting
  
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Time Needed: 10
  • Tools Required: Account Center access
• Applies to: Shared Hosting
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Time Needed: 10
  • Tools Required: Account Center access

Overview

WHM / cPanel allows you to setup notifications in the event a major change or problem occurs on your server. This can include things such as: Outgoing Email Thresholds Exceeded,  Update Failures, Account Creation, Out of Memory, etc. This can be quite helpful in identifying changes and preventing common issues on a server. The following article will give step-by-step instructions on how to set this up using WHM.

Instructions

The following guide was made with a server using WHM v90.0.17 

1. Log into WHMLog into WHM.
2. Navigate to Server Configuration >> Basic WebHost Manager Setup.
   
3. Under Contact Information, input an email address(es) where you would like to receive notifications.
   
4. Scroll the bottom of the page and click Save Changes.
5. Back in WHM, navigate to Server Contacts >> Contact Manager.
   
6. Under Receives, select from the drop-down (All, High, Medium, None). This will determine the importance for each notification send type. This will be relevant in the next step when we assign an importance to a notification.
   
7. Click the Notifications tab. Then select an Importance for each alert. These will be the importance levels we had setup in the previous step.
   
   • If you've forgotten which notification send type is assigned to each importance level, you can see a visual cue for each alert type in the Alert List column.
     
8. Scroll the bottom of the page and click Save.
9. That's it! You should now have notification setup for your server.

Resources

• Contact Manager