Thanks for posting!  I suspect this is the only server in your environment, so the best way to set up email alerting is to put IT Assistant on a Windows desktop system and use it to monitor the server.  Since the server is probably running Exchange, major problems will probably prevent emails from going out, but having ITA on a different system will at least give you some troubleshooting information to work with.

As for how to set it up, go to http://support.dell.com/video and look at Servers & Storage -> Systems Management -> IT Assistant.  There is a 4-part video that will walk you through install all the way through setting up the email alerts.

Thanks.  I'll check it out.  It'll take me a few days though.

I HAD hoped to confine OM to a single platform -- i.e., the server.  I had hoped to have it send mail to its own Exchange Server (part of SBS)  which I have been forwarding to my Blackberry.  So long as Exchange works, I get that mail.  However, I'd been unable to find a way to set OMSA up to send notices by mail.

Thanks for your tips.

You can do it easily with this script:

http://www.tachytelic.net/2010/03/setting-up-e-mail-alerts-from-dell-openmanage-omsa/