User`s guide

30NetBotz Appliance User’s Guide
Alert Profile
Use the Alert Profile icon to customize your appliance default alert notification policy, or to create
additional alert notification policies. Alert policies define the notification actions taken by the appliance
in response to alerts. Each Alert Profile consists of one or more Alert Sequences. An Alert Sequence
specifies:
• The period of time that must pass before an alert condition results in notification
• The number of times the notification is repeated if the alert condition is not corrected
• The time interval at which the notification is enacted
• One or more alert actions that are part of the Alert Sequence notification process
• The schedule that determines whether the Alert Sequence is active at the date and time the alert
occurs
• Capture settings that can override specific alert-action attributes, such as including graphs or
image captures with alert notifications
You can also use the Alert Profile icon to temporarily disable all alert notifications globally associated
with an Alert Profile.
Default alert profile
Your appliance comes pre-configured with a default alert profile. The default policy features the
following four pre-configured Alert Sequences which are active 24 hours a day, 7 days a week:
• Alert Level 1: Begins immediately after an alert condition occurs (Start Value of 0) and repeats
two times at 5 minute intervals. It initiates Primary E-Mail Notification, Short Message E-Mail,
HTTP Post, and FTP Data Delivery alert actions.
• Alert Level 2: Begins 20 minutes after an alert condition occurs and repeats one time at a 10
minute interval. It initiates Secondary E-Mail Notification, Short Message E-Mail, HTTP Post,
and FTP Data Delivery alert actions.
• Alert Level 3: Begins 90 minutes after an alert condition occurs and repeats two times at 60
minute intervals. It initiates Primary E-Mail Notification, Secondary E-Mail Notification, Short
Message E-Mail, HTTP Post, and FTP Data Delivery alert actions.
• Continuous Alert: Begins immediately after an alert condition occurs (Start Value of 0) and
repeats indefinitely at one minute intervals. It initiates the Send SNMP Trap alert action.
Note: Pre-defined alert actions or individual sensor thresholds may require additional
information such as e-mail addresses, server IP addresses, output devices, etc., for
notifications to be delivered. Be sure to properly configure alert actions and thresholds
used in your Alert Profile.
The default alert profile can be edited but not removed. When sensor thresholds are created, the default
alert profile is used unless you use advanced threshold settings to specify otherwise. You can also create
additional Alert Profiles.