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The Setup Alerts page shows details about existing system alerts, and lets you edit them  and define and create new alerts.

Click on "Add Alert" to create a new alert.
Click on the alert name to edit itenter the "alert details" page and edit the alert

ColumnDescription
EnabledShows whether or not the alert will be scheduled to run (this is a read only field, you can change it by editing the alert)
NameThe alert's name, click on the name to go to the Alert details Page - you can edit the alert from there.
DescriptionA description of the alert
(
- displays the
value of the
"Query Value" field of the alert
)
Schedule

When the alert will be scheduled

(if the alert is not enabled the

-

Info
The alert will not be scheduled
)
if it is not enabled, even if this field contains value


Recipients
syslog
"Syslog" and/or the email addresses of the recipients

Alert Details page

The alert details page contains two sections:The top part displays the following fields:

FieldDescription
ScheduleWhen the alert will be scheduled (if the alert is not enabled the alert will not be scheduled)
DescriptionA description of the alert
(
-displays the value of the "Query Value" field of the alert
)
REST URLThe URL to run the alert via REST
Recipients
syslog
"Syslog" and/or the email addresses of the recipients

it also contains three buttons:
Test - Execute the alert immediately, the alert will be executed even if it's disabled, this is helpful in case you want to check the alert before actually scheduling it.
Edit - Edit the alert
Delete - Delete the alert

Info
Deleted alert cannot be recovered.
If you simply do not want the alert to run - you can disable it (press "Edit" and uncheck the "Enabled" field)


The lower part of the screen page displays the results of the recent 20 executions of the alert

FieldDescription
Executing User

SCHEDULER - if the alert was scheduled

REST - if the alert was run via the REST API

user

User name - if a user tested the alert by pressing the "Test" button

StatusThe execution status
Status Time
Timestamp when
When the status was set
MessageHow many alerts were generated (or an error message if a problem occured)


Add / Edit Alert

The first section contains details about the execution of the alert

FieldDescription
EnabledWhether or not the alert will be scheduled
NameThe Alert's name
ScheduleWhen the alert will be scheduled, the format is identical to the one used to schedule reports
Destination

Specify

whether will write

what will happen when an alert is generated:
Syslog - a syslog record will be written,

send an email, or

you'll need to configure the Syslog target server's host name, port and the syslog severity field value (Error, Info, etc) in the System Parameters page.

Email - send an email (make sure that "Enable Queries Emails SMTP" is set to true inthe System Parameters page)

Email WS - send an email via webservice (make sure that "Enable Queries Emails SMTP WS" is set to true inthe System Parameters page)

Recipientsif the destination is Email or Email WS - this field will contain the list of recipients


The Alert Details section contains information about how the alert's query will be evaluated

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