Alerts Tab

The alerts tab displays user-specified events for the selected time period.

You can configure alert actions and proactive notifications through Syslog or email in the Notifications tab of the Administration page. Alerts act as filters that provide notification for prioritized events or combinations of events through various mechanisms. NSX Advanced Load Balancer includes default alerts based on events deemed to be universally important.

The top of this tab shows the following items:

Field	Description
Search	The search field enables you to filter the alerts using whole words contained within the individual alerts.
Refresh	Clicking on refresh updates the alerts displayed for the currently-selected time.
Number	The total number of alerts being displayed. The date or time range of those alerts appear beneath the search field on the left.
Dismiss	Select one or more alerts from the table below then click dismiss to remove the alert from the list.

Alerts are transitory, which means they will eventually and automatically expire. They intend to notify an administrator of an issue, rather than being the definitive record for issues. Alerts are based on events, and the parent event will still be in the Events record.

The table at the bottom of the Alerts tab displays the following alert details:

Field	Description
Timestamp	Date and time when the alert was triggered. Changing the time interval using the display pull-down menu may potentially show more alerts.
Resource Name	Name of the object that is the subject of the alert, such as a Server or virtual service.
Level	Severity level of the alert, which can be high, medium, or low. Specific notifications can be set up for the different levels of alerts through the Administration page’s Alerts Overlay.
Summary	Summarized description of the alert.
Action	Click the appropriate button to act on the alert.
Expand/Contract	Clicking the plus (+) or minus sign (-) for an event log either expands or contracts that event log to display more information. Clicking the + and – icon in the table header expands and collapses all entries in this tab.