Migrating alert definitions to alert policies

When you upgrade to IBM Spectrum® Control 5.3.2 or later, all of your monitored resources retain their existing alert definitions and are not included in an alert policy. However, at any time, you can place resources into an alert policy or create a policy based on a resource.

Use alert policies to manage the alert definitions and notification settings that apply to different sets of resources. Here are some reasons to place resources in an alert policy:

  • You want to manage alert conditions and notification settings for a group of resources of the same type. For example, if you have several SAN Volume Controller storage systems in your environment, you can create an alert policy so that the alert definitions are the same for all of the SAN Volume Controller systems. Note that alert policies manage one type of resource only.
  • You want to use one alert policy for the storage systems in your test environment, and another for the storage systems in your production environment.
Tips:
  • Alert policies manage one type of resource only.
  • A resource can be managed by only one alert policy.
  • If a resource is managed by a policy, the resource cannot have alert definitions and notification settings that are independent of the policy. The alert definitions and notification settings that apply to the resource come from the policy.

It is not a requirement for resources to be managed by an alert policy. You can define alert conditions and notification settings for individual resources.

You can also define alerts and notification settings for applications and general groups to manage alerts for groups of resource components such as volumes or pools.

Migrating alert definitions from resources to alert policies

If you want to create a new alert policy that uses the alert definitions from one of your resources, complete the following steps:

  1. Go to the details page for the resource from which you want to create the policy. For example, to create an alert policy from a IBM Storage FlashSystem 9100, click Storage > Block Storage Systems.
  2. Right-click the resource, then click View Alert Definitions.
  3. Click Create Policy from the Policy Actions menu.
  4. Type a name for the policy.
  5. Make sure that the Use alert definitions and notification settings from resource_name option is selected.
  6. Select any other resources that you want to add to the policy from the table of resources. Alert definitions in the policy are automatically applied to the resources you select. You can also choose to add resources later.