Creating an Alert

You can create alerts to provide automatic notification about operations, such as failed jobs.

Procedure

1. From the navigation pane, go to Monitoring > Alerts.

   The Triggered alerts page appears.

2. On the Alerts definitions tab, in the upper-right area of the page, click Add alert definition.

   The Add alerts definition page appears.

3. On the General tab, in the Alert name box, type a name for the alert.

   Note

   The name of the alert must be unique and not follow any generic name conventions.

4. From the Alert type list, click the type of alert you want to create.

   For example, select Backup Job Failed.

5. For the laptop clients or client groups, if you want to add the alert to the subscription list, move the Subscription-based alert toggle to the right.

6. If you want to send email notification individually for an alert, move the Send individual notification to the right.

7. Click Next.

8. On the Entities tab, select the entities to apply the alert to.

   Note

   The tenant admin can select individual or all servers and server groups.

9. Click Next.

10. On the Criteria tab, select the criteria for which the alert will be triggered.

11. Click Next.

12. On the Filters tab, if you want to define alert based on alert tokens, click Add rule group.

13. Click Add Rule and configure a rule.

    For example, JOB ID greater than 1000.

    For descriptions of the tokens, see Available Alert Tokens.

14. Click Next.

15. On the Target tab, under Notification types, select how to notify users when the alert is triggered, and then specify the recipient details.

    For example, you can email the alert to a group of users.

16. Click Next.

17. To change the default information in the alert, on the Template tab, remove or add information that is included in the alert when it is triggered.

    Note

    If you select Workflow on the target tab, then under Workflow, configure the workflow type.

18. Click Submit.