Adding a Threshold Alert (BUI)

Use this procedure to specify an alert for a specific Analytics statistic threshold event, and to specify an action (response) for the alert.

Before You Begin

To perform this procedure, you must have the alerts configure authorization.

From the Configuration menu, select Alerts.
Click the Threshold alerts tab.
Click the add icon in the Threshold alerts tab title.
In the Threshold section of the dialog box, specify the threshold event.
1. Select a statistic from the drop-down menu.
2. Select the event type: exceeds or falls below.
3. Specify the percent or the number of bytes, operations, accesses, or requests.
In the Timing section of the dialog box, specify when to send this threshold event alert.

You can specify to send the alert only when the event occurs on particular days or within particular time ranges or after the event has occurred for a particular length of time. You can specify a multiple of these timing parameters.
In the Alert actions section of the dialog box, select the action to take when this threshold 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.

If this threshold alert does not require a unique response, you can leave this Alert actions section blank, and instead use the Thresholds category in the procedure Adding an Alert Action (BUI) to specify alert actions that execute for high-level threshold events, such as a violated statistic threshold.
Optional: Click the TEST button to create a test alert, and to execute this alert action.

For example, a test can be useful for checking whether email or SNMP is configured correctly.
Optional: To specify additional actions for this threshold event alert, click the add icon in the Alert actions section title.

Select the action and specify arguments.
Click APPLY at the top right of the dialog box.

Next Steps

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