Alerts

26 January 2024

SiteContinuity creates an alert when specific activities in your DR plan complete successfully or fail. Alerts are generated when Failover, Failback, DR Plan Activation, DR Plan Replication, Tear Down, or Test Failover fails and when Failover and Failback complete successfully.

View Alerts

View Alerts List

In SiteContinuity, navigate to the Alerts page. The Alerts page displays all the alerts.

View an Alert

To view the details of an alert:

  1. In SiteContinuity, navigate to Alerts.

  2. From the list of alerts, click on an alert to view that alert’s details:

For each alert, the alert details page provides a date range, a chart, and several important fields:

  • Alert Code. The alert code. Click the alert code for the code description.

  • Severity. Each alert has a severity rating that indicates the seriousness of the problem:

    • Critical. Immediate action is required because it detects a major function not working or a severe problem that might be imminent.

    • Warning. Action is required, but the affected functionality is still working.

    • Informational. Immediate action is not required, and the alert provides an informational message.

  • Type. Type is always Software for SiteContinuity alerts.

  • Category.The alert category is always Disaster Recovery for SiteContinuity alerts.

  • Status. The status of the alert can be one of the following:

    • Active. The issue the alert indicates has yet to be resolved.

      The alert is informational, and no action is required.

    • Resolved. The alert has been resolved.

  • Description. Information about the alert includes the DR plan name

  • Cause. A brief description of what caused the alert.

Filter Alerts

The Alerts page displays all the alerts that SiteContinuity generates. Filters on the Alerts tab help you display only the alerts you want.

The filtering options are:

  • Severity. Critical, Info, or Warning.

  • Time Range. Set the period within which the alert was generated.

You can click the search icon and enter the Alert name in the Search field. As you type, DR Applications that match your search term appear.