The risk alerts list is all the generated alerts that are configured to indicate risk in your environment. Address risk alerts in the near future, before the triggering symptoms that generated the alert negatively affect the health of your environment.
How Risk Alerts Work
All the risk alerts generated for your managed objects appear in the list.
You can manage the alerts in the list using the toolbar options, click the alert name to see the alert details for the affected object, or click the name of the object on which the alert was generated to see the object details.
Risk Alerts Options
The alert options include toolbar and data grid options. Use the toolbar options to cancel, suspend, or manage ownership. You can select multiple rows in the list using Shift+click, Control+click. Use the data grid to view the alerts. You can click the alert name to view the alert details or object name to view the object details.
| Option | Description |
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| Open in external application | Actions you can run on the selected object. For example, Open Virtual Machine in vSphere Client. |
| Cancel Alert | Cancels the selected alerts. If you configure the alert list to display only active alerts, the canceled alert is removed from the list. You cancel alerts when you do not need to address them. Canceling the alert does not cancel the underlying condition that generated the alert. Canceling alerts is effective if the alert is generated by triggered fault and event symptoms because these symptoms are triggered again only when subsequent faults or events occur on the monitored objects. If the alert is generated based on metric or property symptoms, the alert is canceled only until the next collection and analysis cycle. If the violating values are still present, the alert is generated again. |
| Suspend | Suspend an alert for a specified number of minutes. You suspend alerts when you are investigating an alert and do not want the alert to affect the health, risk, or efficiency of the object while you are working. If the problem persists after the elapsed time, the alert is reactivated and it will again affect the health, risk, or efficiency of the object. The user who suspends the alert becomes the assigned owner. |
| Take Ownership | As the current user, you make yourself the owner of the alert. You can only take ownership of an alert, you cannot assign ownership. |
| Release Ownership | Alert is released from all ownership. |
| Filtering options | Limits the list of alerts to those matching the filter you create. You can also sort on the columns in the data grid. |
The Risk Alerts data grid provides a list of generated alerts that you use to resolve problems in your environment.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Criticality | Criticality is the level of importance of the alert in your environment. The alert criticality appears in a tooltip when you hover the mouse over the criticality icon. The level is based on the level assigned when the alert definition was created, or on the highest symptom criticality, if the assigned level was Symptom Based.
The possible values include:
By default, alerts are sorted by criticality. Presorting the alerts list by criticality displays critical alerts at the top of the list. If you change the sort order, the sort is saved with your preferences in the global alerts list, and the Health, Risk, and Efficiency alerts lists. |
| Alert | Name of the alert definition that generated the alert. Click the alert name to view the alert details tabs where you can begin troubleshooting the alert. |
| Alert Type | Describes the type of alert that triggered on the selected object, and helps you categorize the alerts so that you can assign certain types of alerts to specific system administrators. For example, Application, Virtualization/Hypervisor, Hardware, Storage, and Network. |
| Alert Subtype | Describes additional information about the type of alert that triggered on the selected object, and helps you categorize the alerts to a more detailed level than Alert Type, so that you can assign certain types of alerts to specific system administrators. For example, Availability, Performance, Capacity, Compliance, and Configuration. |
| Status | Current state of the alert. Possible values include Active or Canceled. |
| Triggered On | Name of the object for which the alert was generated, and the object type, which appears in a tooltip when you hover the mouse over the object name. Click the object name to view the object details tabs where you can begin to investigate any additional problems with the object. |
| Control State |
State of user interaction with the alert. Possible values include:
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| Object Type | Type of object on which the alert was generated. |
| Owner | Name of the user who owns the alert. |
| Created On | Date and time when the alert was generated. |
| Updated On | Date and time when the alert was last modified.
An alert is updated whenever one of the following changes occurs:
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| Canceled On |
Date and time when the alert canceled for one of the following reasons:
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