Configuring the Alert Monitor › Alert Sources

Alert Sources

Alerts can come from the following sources:

IP Node Monitor and IP Resource Monitor

Raises alerts based on the performance of specified attributes of IP resources. The alerts can be:

• Enumerated attributes equal to a specific value
• Numeric attributes above or below a specified constant threshold
• Numeric attributes differing from a baseline by more than a specified percentage

IP Event Detectors

Raises alerts based on an event, for example, a particular port listener becomes active or an FTP transfer matching specified criteria fails.

User-written NCL Procedures

Raises alerts defined by user-written NCL procedures, using supplied NCL API calls.

CA NetMaster Internals

Raises alerts concerning the conditions that affect the operation of the CA NetMaster NM for TCP/IP region, for example, VSAM errors on critical files.

CA OPS/MVS

Raises alerts specific to CA OPS/MVS.