Specifications

Chapter 8: Alerts
To disable an alert without removing it, navigate to Explore > Content,
and then select an alert. Click Open at the lower left to open the Alert
details page, and then click Disable in the lower right.
The alert creation screen contains the following tabs:
l Scope
l Criteria
l Notifications
l Advanced settings
Scope
At the highest level, the scope describes what data you analyze, and defines the
importance of the alert. You can define the following details:
l Severity: The importance of the alert (informational, warning, or critical).
l Item Type: The type of content the alert will analyze (application, cluster,
data store, host, or VM).
l Search Query: The search term that is used to retrieve the content the alert
analyzes.
l Evaluate on: The frequency with which the data is to be analyzed.
Note:Every alert is analyzed as new data is collected by Virtualization Manager.
If you set up an alert to evaluate on performance data, the evaluation happens
every time new performance data are collected (10 minutes by default). If you set
up an alert to evaluate on configuration data, the evaluation happens every time
new configuration data are collected (12 hours by default).
Even though it may seem more granular to set up all alerts to evaluate on
performance data collection, many alerts only consider configuration data in their
evaluations, which does not change as frequently as performance data. Instead of
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