Create alert rules

This procedure demonstrates how to create an alert rule and to configure conditions and actions.

  1. From the menu bar click Tools > Alert Rules.
  2. Under the alert rules grid, click Add.
    This opens the Alert Rule dialog box.
  3. Enter a rule Name and Description.
  4. Select or clear the Enabled check box to determine whether the rule is enabled or disabled
  5. Use the following steps to create a rule condition from the Whenbox. You must select values for all definitions to save the rule.
    1. In the Destination State statement, click the <Values> link.
    2. In the Select Alert dialog box, expand the SNMP Device Alerts tree and the Destination Alerts tree and select the options that the alert rule should perform the actions on.
      Selecting a section will select all conditions it contains.
    3. In the Destination statement, click the <Values> link.
    4. In the Select Destination dialog box, click the appropriate destination in the tree.
      Press Ctrl or Shift while you click to select multiple destinations.
    5. In the Fault statement, click the link and choose between the Occurs and Behavior options.
      • Occurs — The action will be executed when the fault occurs. The fault condition will not be evaluated. This is the default selection
      • Behavior — This displays a <Values> link. Click the link to configure the fault behavior. From the Fault Behavior dialog box, configure whether the behavior that triggers the rule action is active for the time period chosen, or if the fault behavior is repeated so many times before the rule action is fired. If you do not want this level of granularity for the fault condition, select the Occurs behavior.
    6. In the Remainder interval statement, click the link to configure the reminder interval on the Notification Reminder dialog.
      This allows you to repeat the action over a period of time. If you want the action to only send the notification once, set the value for the notification reminder interval to 0 and the value will change to None. The default reminder interval is None.
  6. Use the following steps to create a send email rule action.
    1. In the Perform the following actions box, click the <Action> link and select Send Email.
      This opens the Send Email dialog box.
    2. Select a Profile from the list.
      You can also click the browse button (...) to display the Manage Outbound Email Profiles dialog box. This dialog box lists all of the defined email profiles. From this dialog box you can create, import, and export profiles, as well as manage all existing profiles.
    3. To create a new email profile, click New.
    4. Configure the email profile from the dialog box. When you are finished, click OK, and then Close.
    5. In the Send Email dialog box, enter the email address you want to be sent notifications in the To, CC, and Bcc boxes.
      You can enter multiple email addresses separated by a comma.
    6. In the Reply to box, enter an email address where replies will be routed.
      You can enter multiple email addresses separated by a comma.
    7. Enter the email Subject text.
    8. Under Digest, you can enable the digest feature by choosing one of the following options in the Send Digest list:
      Option Description
      Every interval Sends the digest according to the time interval specified. You will receive a message every interval, even if no alerts were received during the interval.
      At time interval Sends the digest according to the time interval specified. The time interval will start when the first notification messages is received. You will be notified when at least one notification has been received.
      Every hour Sends the digest every hour. You will receive a message every interval, even if no alerts were received during the interval.
      Every half hour Sends the digest every half hour. You will receive a message every interval, even if no alerts were received during the interval.
      If necessary, specify the Interval in minutes. In the Max Alerts box, you can specify the maximum number of alerts to be included in the digest.
    9. Enter the body text.
      To insert document properties in the body text, right-click in the text box, click Insert Document Property, and choose the appropriate properties. The values of the properties will display in the email message. To insert functions, right-click in the box, click Insert Function, and choose the appropriate function. Review the Using Output Manager functions help topic for information on configuring functions.
    10. Click Validate.
    11. Click OK.
  7. You can create, organize, and remove rule actions using the buttons below the actions box.
  8. From the Follow-on Action list, click the action you would like to take after this rule has been processed. You can continue processing rules or select not to process any additional rules.
  9. Click OK to save your alert rule.