# New/Edit NotifierOptions

- Note: this window is only included in the standard edition of Simon, not Simon Express and Simon Free. Learn more...

The Options page of the New / Edit Notifier window lets you specify how this notifier should be categorized: for changes, for failures, for recoveries, or some combination, as described below:

Change: Check this box if this notifier is appropriate for changes. This will simply make it appear in the Change pop-up menu in the Notifiers page of the New/Edit Test window, so it can be chosen as a change notifier for any tests.

- after [] consecutive changes: Enter how often to report changes. If the entered value is 1, this notifier will be use every time tests that use it notice a change. If 2 is entered, the notifier will be used every second time. And so on. If you have a test checking frequently, and the site tends to change often, you may only want to hear about it occasionally.

Failure: Similar to the Change checkbox above, this indicates that this notifier can be used for failures, e.g. when a site goes down.

- after [] consecutive errors: Enter how often to report errors. Similar to the field for changes, this field controls how often to report a failure. Using a larger number will give the site a chance to recover before reporting the error -- useful for an e-mail notifier.

Only notify once for each failure: If this box is checked, the failure is only reported once. It won't notify again until the site is back up.

Recovery: Similar to the Change checkbox above, this indicates that this notifier can be used for recoveries, e.g. when a site comes back up after a failure.

- after [] recoveries: Enter how often to report recoveries. Normally you'd probably want to leave this at 1, so every recovery is reported, but you can set it to a higher value if you only occasionally want to know when a site comes back up.

Only notify if failure notified: If this box is checked, the recovery is not reported if there hasn't been a failure notification of the same kind. This allows a brief outage to be ignored by the failure and recovery notifiers, if desired.

## Related Topics

- New/Edit Notifier window
- New/Edit Test Notifiers page