About Alerts

The Events > Alert Settings screens are available in the Console, Firewall, SRA, CDP, and ES panels. You can create and edit alerts on these screens. In the alert settings screens, you can combine all of the previous elements (severity, threshold, and schedule) that you have configured in the Console panel.

The GEM framework provides different types of alert types for the respective areas of the GMS application:

•	Policies panel: Alert settings for Management

•	Reports panel: Alert settings for Reporting

•	Console panel: Alert settings for the GMS application

 

Table 74. GEM Alert Types

Panel location	Available Alert Types
Console	Backed up Syslog Files
	Database Information
	Disk Space Utilization Status
	New Firmware Availability
	Unit Status Report
Reports	Bandwidth Usage (Billing Cycle)
	Bandwidth Usage (Daily)
	Data Usage (Billing Cycle)
	Data Usage (Daily)
	Events/Hits Total (Daily)
	Number of Attacks (Daily)
	Number of Threats (Daily)
Policies	Unit HF Status
	Unit Locally Changed
	Unit Status
	Unit WAN Status
	VPN Tunnel Status
	Agent Quota Reached
	Agent Unsuccessful Backups
	Appliance Capacity Status
	CPU Status
	Offsite Capacity Status

Duplicate Alerts

Duplicate alerts are allowed in GMS. A duplicate alert uses the same alert type that is already used in an existing alert. You do not need to create a duplicate alert if you want to add to or change an existing alert. Normally, you would avoid creating a duplicate alert by editing an existing alert to add another threshold element, destination, or other component. For example, you can have two or more threshold elements in the same alert to trigger under different conditions.

At times there are benefits to creating a duplicate alert. As an example, only five destinations are allowed per alert, so a duplicate alert could include additional destinations. Or, you could create a duplicate alert that sends SNMP traps while the original alert sends email notifications. Also, if a threshold is being shared and you do not want to modify it, you can create a separate threshold and use it in a duplicate alert.

GMS displays a warning when you try to create a duplicate alert. The warning serves as a reminder in case you forget that an alert already exists using the same alert type.

NOTE: Duplicate alerts use more resources from the alerting agent, but do not have a large impact on performance. You will receive two alert emails instead of one if the destinations are identical.