Alerts

The Events entry on the Reports tab allows you to configure and view alerts specific to Reporting for the unit selected.” The Events entry on the Reports tab allows you to configure and view alerts specific to Reporting for the unit selected, through the Alert Settings and Current Alerts items.

You can follow specific alerts. For more information, refer to Using Granular Event Management .

1	Click on Events > Alert Settings.

The Alerts menu comes up. You can use this menu to search for Alerts by name or type, either by exact match or matching strings. Click Search to find an Alert of interest.

 

2	You can also add an alert. Click Add Alert on the Alerts menu. The resulting pop-up menu allows you to specify the type of data you want to track, how often to poll for data, and whether it is visible to only administrators or to non-administrators as well.

Alert Types are pre-defined, static parameters and are not customizable. Available categories are:

 

Table 59. Available categories

Alert Type	Description
Bandwidth usage (Billing Cycle)	Tracks the bandwidth total in bytes per billing cycle. The value that the threshold uses is Numeric.
Bandwidth Usage (Daily)	Tracks the daily bandwidth total in bytes. The value that the threshold uses is Numeric.
Events/Hits (Daily)	Tracks the daily events/hits total. The value that the threshold uses is Numeric.
Number of Threats (Daily)	Tracks the daily attacks count. The value that the threshold uses is Numeric.

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Select the Alert Type and click on Edit Content to edit threshold values. A popup menu comes up. You can choose from the preset Threshold values or create a new threshold value by clicking the icon to the right of the Threshold banner. Only one new threshold can be created at a time. For more information on thresholds, see Configuring Event Thresholds .

NOTE: Threshold values might not be available for all Alert types. If this is the case, the Edit Content field is not present.

4	Alerts can be emailed to you or a specified destination on a regular schedule. You can specify up to five destinations. Click Add Destination to enable and select from the pull-downs of destination and schedule entries.

 

5	Click Add Destination again to add up to five destinations and associated schedules.

 

For more information on configuring Destinations, refer to Destination / Schedule .

6	Click Update when you have finished configuring the Alert. It is added to the list of Alerts on the menu.

You can view any currently-configured alerts by clicking Alerts > Current Alerts. A display of the current Alerts comes up.

 

The listing shows the severity level of the Alert, the unit to which it applies, and a description. Additional details can be obtained by hovering over the balloon on the right side of the column.