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Column | Description | ||
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Enabled | Shows whether or not the alert execution will be scheduled to run (this is a read only field, you can change it by editing the alert) | ||
Name | The alert's name, click on the name to go to the Alert details Page - you can edit the alert from there. | ||
Description | A description of the alert - displays the "Query Value" field of the alert | ||
Schedule | When the an alert execution will be scheduled -
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Recipients | "Syslog" and/or the email addresses of the recipients for the alert publishing |
Alert Details page
The top part displays the following fields:
Field | Description |
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Schedule | When the an alert execution will be scheduled (if the alert is not enabled the alert will not be scheduled) |
Description | A description of the alert -displays the value of the "Query Value" field of the alert |
REST URL | The URL to run the alert via REST |
Recipients | "Syslog" and/or the email addresses of the recipients |
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for the alert publishing |
The top part of the page 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
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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) |
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Field | Description |
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Executing User | SCHEDULER - if the alert was scheduledDPOD run an alert execution via the scheduler REST - if the alert was run via the REST API User name - if a user tested the alert by pressing the "Test" button |
Status | The execution status |
Status Time | When the status was set |
Message | How many alerts were generated (or an error message if a problem occuredoccurred) |
Add / Edit Alert
The first section contains details about the execution of the alert
Field | Description |
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Enabled | Whether or not the alert will be scheduled for execution |
Name | The Alert's name |
Schedule | When the alert will be scheduled, the format is identical to the one used to schedule reports |
Destination | Specify what will happen when an alert is generatedthe alert publishing destinations: 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) |
Recipients | if 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
Field | Description |
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Type | DPOD supports three types of alerts: Frequency - The condition will be met if there were X events in the checked time (for example, more than 5 system errors occurred in the last 10 minutes) |
Query Value | Free text, describes the results returned by the alert's query Press on the "Details" button to view the Alert Queryalert query itself |
Index Sets | (Hidden by default) Which ElasticSearch index sets will be queried |
Document Types | (Hidden by default) Which ElasticSearch document types will be queried |
Query (JSON) | (Hidden by default) An ElasticSearch query |
Query Period | The time frame for the alert's query |
Operator | Operator for the alert's query |
Threshold | The value to compare the query's result to |
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