IBM DataPower Operations Dashboard v1.0.8.5
Note: A more recent version of DPOD is available. See DPOD Documentation for the latest documentation.
Alerts Setup
The Setup Alerts page shows details about existing system alerts, and lets you edit them and create new alerts.
Click on "Add Alert" to create a new alert.
Click on the alert name to enter the "alert details" page and edit the alert.
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
| 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 an alert execution will be scheduled - The alert will not be scheduled if it is not enabled, even if this field contains a value |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Schedule | When 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 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
The lower part of the page displays the results of the recent 20 executions of the alert
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Executing User | SCHEDULER - if DPOD 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 occurred) |
Add / Edit Alert
The first section contains details about the execution of the alert
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| 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 the alert publishing destinations: Email - send an email (make sure that "Enable Queries Emails SMTP" is set to true in the System Parameters page) Email WS - send an email via webservice (make sure that "Enable Queries Emails SMTP WS" is set to true in the 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 |
|---|---|
| Type | The alert type (more information about the alert types can be found in the the Alerts page) |
| Query Value | Free text, describes the results returned by the alert's query Press the "Details" button to view the alert 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 |
| Parameters (JSON) | (Hidden by default) Named parameters to replace placeholders in the query. i.e: |
| 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 (not applicable for alert types "any" and "list" |
| Field Name | Only applicable for alert type "list" |
| Value List | Only applicable for alert type "list" - the list of values delimited by the delimiter specified in the "delimiter" field |
The Alert Filters section lets you specify additional criteria for the alert's query
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Device | Which DataPower devices the alert's query should check |
| Domain | Which DataPower domains the alert's query should check |
| Service | Which DataPower services the alert's query should check |