Alert Center Item Details
How to get here
- From any workspace view or report in the web interface, select . The GO menu appears.
- If the WhatsUp section is not visible, click . The WhatsUp section of the GO menu appears.
- Click . The Alert Center Home page appears.
- In any of the workspace reports that display out of threshold items, click a device. The Alert Center Item Details dialog appears.
Use this dialog to view the details of and to update an item that is out of the parameters of an Alert Center threshold.
Item details
- lists the specific device aspect on which the item has gone out of threshold. For example, the specific CPU or interface.
- displays the length of time in which the service has met the threshold parameters.
- lists the state of the item; can be either Out of threshold, In threshold, or Disabled.
- lists the current step of the applied notification policy.
- lists the time the Alert Center initially found the item out of threshold.
- lists the most recent time the item was updated. This item does not appear unless the item has been previously updated.
Update item(s)
From the list, select how you would like to update the item(s).
- Acknowledged items are being dealt with. Notifications will continue to be sent. Acknowledged items still appear in the threshold workspace report.
- Resolved items have been dealt with completely and are removed from the threshold workspace report.
Next, select the item(s) to which you would like to apply the update.
Select either:
- to apply the update to this specific item.
- to apply the update to any matching items that were created during the same poll.
- to apply the update to any item older than the hour value you specify.
- to update any items currently existing for this threshold.
After selecting the appropriate update, enter a brief that explains what was done to take care of the problem.
: It is not required that you enter an explanatory comment, though we suggest that you do so for record-keeping purposes.
Click to save changes.
: Items that have been acknowledged display a green check mark
next to their name on Alert Center Home threshold workspace reports.
For more information
A note about notifications
A note about resolving items