Monitoring alerts

From the Operations Center, you can monitor alerts from hub or spoke servers.

Alert monitoring overview
Alert monitoring in IBM Spectrum Protect can help identify and track relevant problems on the server.
Configuration tasks for alert monitoring
You can configure various aspects of alert monitoring. For example, email alerts can be sent to administrators, and you can update which server messages trigger alerts.
Identifying the cause of alerts
The Alerts page of the Operations Center can help you identify the cause of alerts.
Changing the state of an alert
From the Alerts page of the Operations Center, you can change the state of an alert.
Assigning alerts to administrators
You can assign alerts to an administrator for monitoring. The respective administrator ID is then shown in the table on the Alerts page of the Operations Center.
Sending email alerts to administrators
An alert is a notification of a relevant problem on the IBM Spectrum Protect server and is triggered by an IBM Spectrum Protect server message. Alerts can be shown in the Operations Center and can be sent from the server to administrators by email.

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