Alerts Report
An alert is a notification to the user of system events. Examples of alerts are update notifications, licensing capacity notifications, software failures, or hardware failures. Please note that an alert does not necessarily mean that a failure has occurred; instead it simply means that an event has occurred that the user may need to take action concerning (see "Severity" below for more information.)
Each row of the report contains the following information:
- Name. The name of the system issuing the alert. The system may be found in the overall system status table directly above the alert status table and may also be found in the navigation panel to the left of the alert status table.
- Severity. The severity of the alert. Alerts may have one of the following severities:
- Notice: Information only.
- Warning: An event has occurred which requires attention but is not critical to on-going system operation.
- Critical: An event has occurred which requires immediate attention and is critical to on-going system operation.
- Resolved. The cause of the event that caused the alert to be issued has been resolved.
- Date. The date on which the alert was issued.
- Time. The time on which the alert was issued.
- Source. The subsystem of the system issuing the alert. This varies depending upon the system. For example, a system such as a vault may issue an alert from a subsystem such as its disk subsystem or its core software subsystem.
- Description. The descriptive text that is associated with the alert.
In addition, there is in an alerts report available via the "Reports" system as well. This may be used to enable more flexible querying of historical alert information. A complete description of all of the selection mechanisms available to manage the display of the report may be found at this link.