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Alert Policy Attributes

An alert policy is created in the View Management Console and is comprised of a command and its attributes.

policy_name

Specifies the name of the alert policy. The name is required and must be unique.

The following attributes are available:

job_status: status

Indicates a job status with which to associate the policy.

The following options are available:

alarm_type: alarm_name

Specifies one or more alarm types to include in the policy.

The following options are available:

Note: Entering * indicates to associate the policy with all alarm types.

job_name: job_pattern

Specifies a job or group of jobs with which to associate the policy.

Note: You can use the asterisk (*) or percent (%) as a wildcard for the entire name or for a partial name, where the * and % represents zero or more characters. You can also use the question mark (?) to represent any single character.

box_name: boxjob_pattern

Specifies a box job or group of box jobs with which to associate the policy.

Note: You can use the asterisk (*) or percent (%) as a wildcard for the entire name or for a partial name, where the * and % represents zero or more characters. You can also use the question mark (?) to represent any single character.

severity: state

Specifies the severity level for the alert, such as Critical, High, Medium, or Low.

server: server_name

(Optional) Specifies the name of the server or servers to which to monitor global job alerts. If this attribute is specified, the alerts are displayed in the Alerts table on the Servers details page.

active: true|false

Indicates whether the policy will be applied.

Default: true

status: event_state

Specifies one or more alert states to include, such as Open, Acknowledged, or Closed.

text: text

(Optional) Describes the alert.

Limits: 255 characters

url_name: url_name

(Optional) Specifies the display name of the link to content related to the alert.

url_link: url_link

(Optional) Indicates the URL at which content related to the alert resides.

More information:

Create a View Using VMC

Edit a View Using VMC

View Management Console Dialog

How to Create and Assign an Alert Policy to a Custom View

Create an Alert Policy in VMC

Edit an Alert Policy

Create a View Using the View Editor