Using the Alerts Home page

The Alerts Home page displays running notification policies and dashboard reports for configured Alert Center thresholds.

Filtering data

You can sort the data displayed on this page in several ways using the three lists at the top of the page.

• View. You can view All items, only those items that are Out of threshold, or only those items that are In threshold.
• Filter by. You filter data by any one threshold, all thresholds of a particular type, or apply No filter.
• Sort by. You can sort the thresholds displayed by Items out of threshold, or Alphabetically.

Running Notification Policies

This section of Alerts Home page displays the following data for any notification policy that is currently running.

• Policy name displays the notification policy name, as configured in the Notification Policy Library.

  Tip: Click a policy name to view current and historical data for the notification policy.

• Notification progress displays the current step of the policy.
• Triggered by displays the threshold that caused the notification policy to begin.
• Time created displays the time the notification policy began.

Tip: Click the Running Notification Policies title bar to view the Running Notification Policies report.

Threshold dashboard reports

Each threshold dashboard report displays data relevant to that threshold type.

Note: Items that have been acknowledged display a green check mark next to their name on Alerts Home page threshold dashboard reports.

Threshold dashboard report title bar

• The threshold dashboard report title displays the threshold name, as configured in the Threshold Library.
• Thresholds with alarmed items display an Alert icon .
• The number of out of threshold items is displayed in parenthesis next to the threshold name.
• Click a title bar to configure that threshold.
• Click Export to export data for a dashboard report to a text file, Microsoft Excel, or a .PDF. For more information, see Alert Center Data Export Settings.
• Click Help to view help for a threshold dashboard report.
• Use expand and collapse buttons on the dashboard report title bar to show or hide threshold report data.

See Also Alert Center options Learning about Alert Center Using the Threshold Library Using Notification Policies Using Running Notification Policies Using the Items report Using the Log report Using Email Notification Message Settings Configuring Data Export Settings Configuring record maintenance