Symptom Definitions
As mentioned earlier, it is one or more Symptom Definitions that defines when an alert is triggered. There are four different Symptom Definition types:
Metric/Property
Message Event
Fault
Metric Event
If you are creating your own custom alerts, you will generally be working with Metric/Property Symptom Definitions. The other three are generally used by vRealize Operations itself, or by Solutions.
Symptom Criticality
The description of every symptom includes its Criticality. This is a measure of how important the symptom is. There are four levels of Criticality:
Info: Typically used to describe the object state, for example, Virtual machine is powered off, which is a symptom that might be used to suppress alerts that aren't relevant when a machine is powered off
Warning: This is the first level of criticality; this will typically set a badge color yellow
Immediate: This is something that requires immediate attention and the badge color will turn orange
Critical: This is something...
