Having set up system and performance alerting, it is now time to test those darn alerts to make sure they work! Alerting can notify a operator via email, paging, or a net send messages. Now adays, most people have a smart phone, not an old fashion pager. Therefore, I usually create a Active Directory group that has both the regular company email of the DBA group and their cell phone eqivalents which are usually the phone number @ provider name dot com. Today, I am going to talk about two…