Service Alerts Reports

The report is intended to display all the alert instances for a service. Alerts are categorized into 5 types listed below.

The report shows alert details for each chosen alert type in form of a table. Each alert table shows the When displaying metrics, usually all numeric metrics, Service Type, Severity, Alert Triggered (Alert notification time) and the Message for the alert.

The Information Publisher comes with 1 out of box report.

Service Alerts : This report displays all the 5 alert types in 5 different tables. The data is displayed for the time period selected by the user.

The Information Publisher also has an element for Service Alerts, so that users could customize it. The possible customization is seeing all the alerts types or picking the select few. For further information on this element refer to the documentation for this element.

Usage Steps for Custom Service Alerts Report

  1. Click Create to create a new report definition.

  2. Specify an appropriate name for the Service Alerts report.

  3. From the Targets area of the General Page, select the option Use the Specified target and leave the Target field blank.

  4. On the Elements page, click Add to add Service Alerts element

  5. Select Service Alerts element and click Continue.

  6. Click Set Parameters icon for the element.

  7. Select the target to be monitored.

  8. Select the component to be monitored.

  9. Select the time period for which you want the report.

  10. Select desired Alert Type value from drop down value to view the report for that alert type.

  11. Repeat steps 1 to 10 to add various types of alerts to the final report.

  12. Click OK to save the report.

Related Topics

About Services

Managing Reports

Enterprise Manager Information Roadmap