Working with alerts generated by monitors

In Chapter 5, Working with Management Packs, we discussed the difference between monitors and rules and in the context of alert tuning, it's important to have the ability to easily identify when an alert is generated by one or the other.

A quick way to identify if an alert was generated by a monitor is to click on the alert from within the console and check either the Alert Details or Alert Actions pane to see if they refer to a monitor as shown in Figure 8.4.

Figure 8.4: Identifying an alert generated by a monitor

Alerts generated by monitors tend to behave differently and have a lot more options that can be configured with overrides than alerts generated by rules.

Overriding monitor generated alerts

If you need to change how an alert generated by a monitor behaves, then you'll need to configure an override for that alert. Overrides can be configured within the console using the Monitoring, My Workspace or Authoring workspaces.

The following steps will...