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Create and Modify Event and Alarm Notifications in Alerts

You can create and modify event and alarm notifications in Alerts.

Creating Event Notifications for Alerts

In Data Safe you can create event notifications for Alerts related events. You can use the quickstart template for common events or the advanced event notification workflows to create notifications.

Prerequisites:

Ensure you have the necessary IAM permissions to create event notifications. For more information, see Permissions to Use Contextual Event Notifications in the Administering Oracle Data Safe guide.

To create event notifications:

  1. Under Security center, click Alerts.
  2. Under Related resources, click Reports or Target-policy associations based on what event notifications you'd like to set up.
  3. Click the Notifications tab.
  4. Click Create notification.

    If you don't have any notifications created for the selected resource then you will see a list of available quickstart templates. You may click on one of these instead.

    The Create notification side panel will appear.

  5. Select to create an event notification from either a Quickstart template or an Advanced event notification.

    A Quickstart templates allow you to select from a list of common event scenarios. When you create a notification from a quickstart template, the Rule and Event is created automatically.

    Note:

    The Rule and Event are created in the compartment that you were working in when you started the Notification workflow. Rules and Events will only trigger for the compartment and any child-compartments of the compartment that they were created in.
  6. If you selected Quickstart in the previous step, make a quickstart Template selection.

    If you selected Advanced event notification in the previous step, type in a Rule name and select an Event type.

    Optionally, click on + Another condition to add an additional condition to the rule.
    1. Select a Condition.

      If you selected Attribute in the previous step, select an Attribute name and Attribute values.

      If you selected Filter tag in the previous step, select a Tag namespace, a Tag key, and a Tag value.

    See Alert Event Types in the Administering Oracle Data Safe guide for more information on events.

  7. Select to either Create new topic or to Select existing topic.
  8. Select a Compartment.

    Note:

    This compartment is where the topic will be created, not where the rule and event will be monitored in.
  9. If you're creating a new topic, type the topic name or, if you're using an existing topic, select the topic name.
  10. Select a Subscription protocol.
  11. Provide the necessary inputs for the selected subscription protocol.
  12. Optionally, click + Another subscription to add additional subscriptions.
  13. Optionally, click Show Advanced Options to tag the notification.
    1. Click + Another Tag to create an additional optional tag to organize and track resources in your tenancy.
    2. Select a Tag Namespace from the drop-down list.
    3. Provide a Tag Key and Tag Value.
  14. Click Create notification.

Creating Alarm Notifications for Alerts

In Data Safe you can create alarm notifications for Alert related events. You can use the quickstart template for common alarm or the advanced alarm notification workflows to create notifications.

Prerequisites:

Ensure you have the necessary IAM permissions to create alarm notifications. For more information, see Permissions to Use Contextual Event Notifications in the Administering Oracle Data Safe guide.

To create alarm notifications:

  1. Under Security center, click Alerts.
  2. Under Related resources, click Target-policy associations.
  3. Click the Notifications tab.
  4. Click Create notification.

    If you don't have any notifications created for the selected resource then you will see a list of available quickstart templates. You may click on one of these instead.

    The Create notification side panel will appear.

  5. Click Quickstart.

    A Quickstart templates allow you to select from a list of common alarm scenarios. When you create a notification from a quickstart template, the Rule and Event is created automatically.

    Note:

    The Rule and Event are created in the compartment that you were working in when you started the Notification workflow. Rules and Events will only trigger for the compartment and any child-compartments of the compartment that they were created in.

    See Alert Event Types in the Administering Oracle Data Safe guide for more information on events.

  6. Make a Quickstart Template selection.
  7. Enter in an Alarm name.
  8. Select an Alarm severity.
  9. Enter the Alerts generation succeeded count.
  10. Enter the Time that utilization is maintained in minutes.
  11. Select to either Create new topic or to Select existing topic.
  12. Select a Compartment.

    Note:

    This compartment is where the topic will be created, not where the rule and event will be monitored in.
  13. If you're creating a new topic, type the topic name or, if you're using an existing topic, select the topic name.
  14. Select a Subscription protocol.
  15. Provide the necessary inputs for the selected subscription protocol.
  16. Optionally, click + Another subscription to add additional subscriptions.
  17. Optionally, click Show Advanced Options to tag the notification.
    1. Click + Another Tag to create an additional optional tag to organize and track resources in your tenancy.
    2. Select a Tag Namespace from the drop-down list.
    3. Provide a Tag Key and Tag Value.
  18. Click Create notification.
  1. Under Security center, click Alerts.
  2. Under Related resources, click Target-policy associations.
  3. Click the Notifications tab.
  4. Click Create notification.

    If you don't have any notifications created for the selected resource then you will see a list of available quickstart templates. You may click on one of these instead.

    The Create notification side panel will appear.

  5. Click Advanced alarm notification.
  6. Enter in an Alarm name.
  7. Select an Alarm severity.
  8. Select an Event type.

    Note:

    The Rule and Event are created in the compartment that you were working in when you started the Notification workflow. Rules and Events will only trigger for the compartment and any child-compartments of the compartment that they were created in.
    Optionally, click on + Another condition to add an additional condition to the rule.
    1. Select a Condition.

      If you selected Attribute in the previous step, select an Attribute name and Attribute values.

      If you selected Filter tag in the previous step, select a Tag namespace, a Tag key, and a Tag value.

    See Alert Event Types in the Administering Oracle Data Safe guide for more information on events.

  9. Select the Metric information.
  10. Enter the Trigger rule information.
  11. Select to either Create new topic or to Select existing topic.
  12. Select a Compartment.

    Note:

    This compartment is where the topic will be created, not where the rule and event will be monitored in.
  13. If you're creating a new topic, type the topic name or, if you're using an existing topic, select the topic name.
  14. Select a Subscription protocol.
  15. Provide the necessary inputs for the selected subscription protocol.
  16. Optionally, click + Another subscription to add additional subscriptions.
  17. Optionally, click Show Advanced Options to tag the notification.
    1. Click + Another Tag to create an additional optional tag to organize and track resources in your tenancy.
    2. Select a Tag Namespace from the drop-down list.
    3. Provide a Tag Key and Tag Value.
  18. Click Create notification.

Modifying Event Notifications For Alerts

After creating event notifications in Alerts in Oracle Data Safe, you can modify the notifications you created.

To modify the event and rule:

  1. Under Security center, click Alerts.
  2. Under Related resources, click Reports or Target-policy associations based on what event notifications you'd like to modify.
  3. Click the Notifications tab.
  4. Click on an existing event from the Name column.

    Note:

    You will only see the Events that were created directly within Data Safe.

    This will bring you to the Rule details page which is part of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Events Service. For more information, see the Events section of the OCI Documentation.

To modify the topic and subscription:

  1. Under Security center, click Alerts.
  2. Under Related resources, click Reports or Target-policy associations based on what event or alarm notifications you'd like to modify.
  3. Click the Notifications tab.
  4. Click on an existing topic from the Topic column.

    Note:

    You will only see the Topics that were created directly within Data Safe.

    This will bring you to the Topic Details page which is part of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Notifications. For more information, see the Notifications section of the OCI Documentation.

To modify the alarm definition:

  1. Under Security center, click Alerts.
  2. Under Related resources, click Target-policy associations.
  3. Click the Notifications tab.
  4. Click on an existing alarm from the Name column.

    This will bring you to the Alarm Definitions page which is part of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Monitoring. For more information, see the Monitoring section of the OCI Documentation.