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Create an Alert Policy in VMC

You can create an alert policy to generate alerts when certain criteria are met.

Follow these steps:

1. Click VMC.

   The View Management Console dialog opens with the available commands and command attributes listed in their respective panes.

2. Click the insert_alert_policy command in the Alert Policy Commands pane.

   An insert_alert_policy template is added to the Commands pane.

   Note: Clicking a command link populates the Commands section with the command.

3. Edit the template definition as appropriate.
4. Click Execute.

   CA WCC verifies the validity of the alert policy definition. If the validity check encounters problems, a message is displayed describing the error. If the validity check succeeds, the commands are executed and the policy is created.

5. Click Close.

   The View Management Console dialog closes.

Example: Create an Alert Policy in VMC and Assign it to a Specific Server

The following definition creates an alert policy named FailedJobs that lets you monitor job status alerts for failed jobs and JOBFAILURE and STARTJOBFAIL alerts for all jobs on servers AS1 and AS2. Only those alerts with a status of Open or Acknowledge are displayed in the Alerts table with an assigned severity of High.

insert_alert_policy: FailedJobs
job_status: Failure
alarm_type: JOBFAILURE, STARTJOBFAIL
job_name: *
severity: High
server: AS1, AS2
status: OPEN, ACKNOWLEDGED
active: true

More information:

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

Alert Policies

Edit an Alert Policy

Create an Alert Policy Using the Alert Policy Dialog

Alert Policy Attributes