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Defining Alert Notification Rules

How To


Summary

When creating a Notification Policy, you can use Predefined rules or Custom rules. Multiple rules can be selected to match ALL or ANY.

Steps

The following Predefined rules are available in the Notification Policies. One or more predefined rules can be selected.
Predefined rules
  • Match for any incoming alert: All incoming alerts are matched with any conditions.
  • Severity attribute of the alert: The following Severity predefined selections can be made. Only one should be selected.
    •   Severity of the alert is Fatal: The Alert Severity is Fatal or 6.
    • Severity of the alert is Critical or above: The Alert Severity is Fatal, Critical, 6 or 5.
    • Severity of the alert is Major or above: The Alert Severity if Fatal, Critical, Major, 6, 5 or 4.
    • Severity of the alert is Minor or above: The Alert Severity is Fatal, Critical, Major, Minor, 6, 5, 4, or 3.
  • What attribute or summary of the alert contains specific text. The value is case insensitive.
    • What happened contains the word failed: The Alert What attribute contains case-insensitive “failed”.
    • What happened contains the word error: The Alert What attribute contains case-insensitive “error”.
Additional Custom Rules can be configured for the Attributes What, Where, Severity and Application or service name.
Custom rule
Once rules are added, the box "Match all rules" can be checked to match ALL rules with an AND condition. If this is not checked, ANY rule is matched.
Match All Rules

Document Location

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Document Information

Modified date:
08 March 2019

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