Operation

The following sections list the alert types available within the Operation category along with important details such as:

User permissions needed to use the alert
CommCell entities that can be associated with the alert
Criteria that trigger the alert
Available alert tokens

Event Viewer Events

Use this alert to monitor operations occurring in the CommCell.

Advanced search options are available for some of the criteria for this alert type. To set advanced options in the Advanced Criteria Options dialog box, click the ellipsis [...] button next to a criterion.

User Permissions	Associated Entities	Criteria	Severity Level	Description	Advanced Criteria Options
Administrative Management or Alert Management	Client Groups Clients	Severity	Information	A CommCell event was marked with one of the following severities: Critical Major Minor Information	Not available
		Job ID	Information	The job ID associated with the CommCell event.	Regular Expression For example, to search for multiple job IDs using regular expressions, type a pipe (\|) between each ID: 12950\|12899\|12900
		Program	Information	The CommCell program that generated the event. For example, Job Manager, CVD, or Media Manager.	Regular Expression For example, to search for multiple event codes using regular expressions, type a pipe (\|) between each code: 19:1950\|45:987\|89:908 Case Sensitive Match whole word
		CommCell	Information	The name of the CommCell from where the event is generated.
		Event Code	Information	The event ID associated with the CommCell event. Use this criterion if a specific CommCell event shows an unexpected behavior.
		Description	Information	A CommCell event with a specific description. For example, this alert can be triggered if the event description has the word "fail" in the description.
		Locale	Information	The language of the CommCell event. By default, it is English.	Not available

To see the tokens available for this alert, see Alerts and Notifications - Tokens.

CommServe Failover

Use this alert to monitor CommServe failover events.

User Permissions	Associated Entities	Criteria	Severity Level	Description
Administrative Management	Not available	Failover activity	Information	A failover event occurred.
		Failover completed	Information	A failover operation completed successfully.
		Failover failed	Critical	A failover operation failed to complete.
		Failover started	Information	A failover operation started.
		Passive node is not reachable	Warning	One of the passive nodes in the failover cluster is not reachable.
		Production CommServe is not reachable	Critical	The active, production CommServe host is not reachable.
		Production CommServe is not running	Critical	The active, production CommServe host is not running.

To see the tokens available for this alert, see Alerts and Notifications - Tokens.

Admin Alert

Use this alert to monitor CommServe administration events.

User Permissions	Associated Entities	Criteria	Description
Administrative Management	Not available	Anomaly in events	The frequency or occurrence of the events does not match the system threshold.
	Not available	Anomaly in number of failed jobs	The number of failed jobs is more than the system threshold.
	Not available	Anomaly in number of pending jobs	The number of pending jobs is more than the system threshold.
	Not available	Anomaly in number of succeeded jobs	The number of succeeded jobs is less than the system threshold.
	Client Groups, Clients	Job activity anomaly	The number of created, deleted, or modified files in a backup job changes abruptly from the normal behavior or the total backed up root size increases or decreases short.
	Client Groups, Clients, Storage Policies	Runtime anomaly in jobs	The runtime of the jobs is more than the system threshold.

To see the tokens available for this alert, see Alerts and Notifications - Tokens.