User's Manual

Alert Filter Name
In OpenManage Essentials, you use alert filters that are associated with alert actions to implement alerting
capabilities. For example:
• You can create alert action associations to trigger actions, such as sending e-mails, when an alert
condition is met.
• You can create ignore, exclude, or both associations to ignore SNMP traps and CIM indications when
they are received. You use these associations to suppress alert floods.
• You can create alert view filters to customize the Alert Logs view.
For more information about creating alert action associations, see Managing Alerts.
Use this window to perform the following tasks:
• Create new alert action associations, ignore/exclude filters, and alert view associations.
• View summary information for alert action associations, ignore/exclude associations, and alert view
filters.
• Edit, delete, rename, and copy alert action associations, ignore/exclude associations, and alert view
filters.
Severity
This page provides a list of alert severity.
Field Description
Name Name of the item (applicable only for ignore
action and view filter).
Enabled Select to enable the alert action (applicable only
for ignore action).
Severity The alert types available.
All Select to include all types of alerts.
Unknown Select to include unknown alerts.
Normal Select to include normal alerts.
Warning Select to include warning alerts.
Critical Select to include critical alerts.
Acknowledgement
Field Description
Limit alerts based on the acknowledge flag Associations alerts by whether they have been
acknowledged or not. This option is disabled by
default.
Match only acknowledged alerts Select to track acknowledged alerts only.
Match only unacknowledged alerts Select to track unacknowledged alerts only.
140