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Alert List View

Alert List View

The Alert List view allows you to import, export, manage, and add alerts.

Workflow

netwitness_alertlist_view_workflow.png

What do you want to do?


  • Role:

    Administrator/ Analyst

  • I want to...:

    Configure an alert

  • Documentation:

    Configure an Alert


  • Role:

    Administrator/ Analyst

  • I want to...: Schedule an alert
  • Documentation: Schedule an Alert

  • Role:

    Administrator/ Analyst

  • I want to...:

    View an alert

  • Documentation:

    View an Alert


  • Role: Administrator/ Analyst
  • I want to...: Investigate an alert
  • Documentation: Investigate an Alert


*You can complete these tasks here.

Related Topics

Alerting Overview

Quick View

The following figure is an example with the important features labeled.

alert_list_pane1.png

  • Column 1: 1
  • Column 2: Click Alerts to open the Alert view.

  • Column 1: 2
  • Column 2:

    The Alert toolbar allows you to add, modify, delete, enable, disable, refresh, import, and export an alert. Using this toolbar, you can also set access permissions for the selected alert.


  • Column 1: 3
  • Column 2: The Alert panel lists all the alerts in a tabular format.

The Alerts List view has the following panels:

  • Alert Toolbar
  • Alert

Alert Toolbar

The Alert toolbar panel has the following features:

  • Feature: netwitness_add_17x17.png
  • Description: Adds a new alert to the Reporting module.

  • Feature: netwitness_delete.png
  • Description: Deletes one or more selected alerts.

  • Feature: netwitness_edit_icon.png
  • Description: Edits an alert.

  • Feature: Enable
  • Description: Enables the selected alerts.

  • Feature: Disable
  • Description: Disables the selected alerts.

  • Feature: netwitness_refresh.png
  • Description: Refreshes the view.

  • Feature: netwitness_options_button.png
  • Description: Enables the following options: Import, Export and Permissions.

Alert

The Alert panel lists all the alerts in a tabular format. The following table lists the columns in the Alert panel and their descriptions.

  • Feature: Enabled
  • Description:

    Displays the state of the alert:

    • Enabled - the alert is active and fires based on the rule assigned to it.
    • Disabled - the alert is not active.

  • Feature: Name
  • Description: Identifies the name of the alert. Clicking the alert name displays the rule on which this alert is based in the Define Rules panel.

  • Feature: Description
  • Description:

    Indicates the alert description.


  • Feature: Actions
  • Description:

    Indicates the action the system takes when the alert fires. The different available action types are as follows:

    • Record
    • SMTP
    • SNMP
    • Syslog