Temporal policy details

The temporal policy details page shows the alerts that make up a temporal group, together with all of the historical instances of the group. You can navigate into these instances to view detailed timelines of each instance. You can also view alert details.

Temporal policy details
Temporal policy details

Procedure

  1. Click the navigation icon at the upper-left corner of the screen to go to the main navigation menu.

  2. In the main navigation menu, click Operate > Automations.

  3. Filter Filter the table to display Temporal and/or Seasonal policies, or search Search for a policy by entering a search term in the field provided.

  4. Locate the policy of interest and do one of the following to launch out to the policy details page:

    • Click the options menu (three vertical dots) at the end of the policy's table row and then click View justification.
    • Click anywhere in the policy's table row and then click Justification in the side panel displayed.

The temporal policy details page contains the following sections:

  • Header:

    • Policy name

    • Toggle button to change the policy state to enabled Toggle on button or disabled Toggle off button. Disabled policies do not take any action against incoming alerts.

      Note: Users must have the Edit operational policies permission to enable or disable policies from the temporal policy details page. The toggle button for policy state will be disabled without this permission. For more information, see Roles and permissions.

  • Toolbar:

    • Search: searches alert data in all event group instances that are shown on this page.

    • Filter: filters the alerts that are shown by severity level:

      • Critical Critical

      • Major Major

      • Minor Minor

      • Warning Warning

      • Information Informational

      • Indeterminate Indeterminate

  • Overview timeline:

    Displays alert group instances over time and controls the display of alert group instance data on the rest of the page. By default the time range sliders are open sufficiently to show data on all alert group instances. Modify the time range by either clicking and dragging over the desired range inside the timeline, or by dragging the sliders to the desired range. The rest of the screen updates accordingly.

  • Alert group instance timeline:

    Displays all of the alerts that have historically participated in instances of this temporal alert group. The instance map provides a graphical view over time of when the various instances have occurred.

  • Alert group instance details:

    Displays the following information for each alert group instance:

    • Start date and time of event group instance: indicates the first occurrence value of the first alert in the alert group instance.

    • Distribution of event severity values: pie chart providing a visual indication of the alert severity values. Hover over the pie chart for more details.

    • Sparkline: chart of alert occurrence over time.

    • Duration of event group instance: duration of the alert group instance, in text.

    • Down chevron icon: click the down chevron icon Downward-pointing chevron icon to see an alert table showing column details for each alert in this group instance.