Adding an Alert Action (BUI)

Select one or more events and select responses to alerts for those events. More than one alert action can be specified for a particular event alert.

From the Configuration menu, select Alerts.
Click the add icon in the Alert actions tab title.
In the Events section of the dialog box, select the event Category.
Except for Custom, events within the category are displayed when you select the category. Select one of the following:
- All events - Select either All (All events) or Subset. If you select Subset, toggle the checkboxes for the events so that only the types of events (such as service alerts or hardware faults) for which you want to perform this alert action are checked.
- A specific category, such as Hardware events or Services - Select either All (All events in this category) or Subset. If you select Subset, toggle the checkboxes for the events so that only the events for which you want to perform this alert action are checked.
  The Analytics category enables you to select high-level events such as datasets auto-suspend warning, memory total exceeded, and usage exceeded. To define an alert for a threshold condition for a specific statistic, see Adding a Threshold Alert (BUI).
  
  The Thresholds category does not enable you to specify threshold events for a specific statistic. The Thresholds category enables you to select high-level events such as statistic threshold violated. Configuring alert actions for these high-level threshold events might be adequate so that you do not need to configure a separate alert action for each specific statistic threshold event alert that you define. To define an alert action that is specific to a particular statistic threshold event, add a threshold alert action as described in Adding an Action for a Specific Threshold Alert (BUI).
- Custom - This selection enables you to specify an alert action for an event that you define in a workflow. See Adding an Alert Action for an Event Defined in a Workflow (BUI).
In the Alert actions section of the dialog box, select the action to take when this event alert is sent.

Most of the actions have arguments. For example, you might have to specify an email recipient or select a dataset or workflow.
Optional: Select the TEST button to create a test alert, and execute this alert action.

A test can be useful, for example, for checking whether email or SNMP is configured correctly.
Optional: To specify additional actions for this event alert, click the add icon in the Alert actions section title. Select the action and specify arguments.
Click ADD at the top right of the dialog box.

Next Steps

To modify an alert action, double-click the alert action or hover over the alert action and click the edit icon and make the changes. Then click APPLY.
To delete an alert action, hover over the alert action, click the delete icon and confirm that you want to delete this alert action.