Monitor Your System

Monitor Your System

Configure and Launch the Alerts Module

The Alerts module lets you monitor and investigate alerts from the dashboard as they are generated. The alert provides immediate knowledge about a problem occurring on the system. The Alerts module displays only current information.

As a Security Administrator, it is important to be aware of alerts as they happen. We recommend that you create a dashboard named Alerts and add the Alerts module to that dashboard. Use this procedure to create a dashboard and configure the Alerts module.

By keeping an active Alerts module on your dashboard, you can see if the user tries to access the payroll data set.

Follow these steps:

1. Click the plus sign icon on the dashboards tab, enter a name for your dashboard, and click Add Dashboard.

   The dashboard name can be up to 21 characters. Valid characters are numeric (0 through 9), alpha (a to z) and (A to Z), underscores, and blank spaces.

2. Add the Alerts module to your customized dashboard.
3. Click the link to configure alerts.
4. Select Security from the Select Alert Source drop-down list, and click Save.

   The Security Alerts module appears on the customized dashboard.

Note: There must be an alert policy in place before the alerts can be seen. For more information, see how to Create an Alert to Monitor a Dataset.