Configure an alert
You can configure alerting for any report that contains a single table. A report must be saved before you can set an alert.
Generate a saved report.
See Generate reports.
Click and select .
Use the following table to configure an alert:
Check for alerts
(schedule)
To schedule a report to be checked for alerts on a regular basis, you must select one of the following options from the drop-down list:
- Master schedules can be configured and then applied to reports. Modifications to a master schedule will automatically be applied to all the reports associated with that master schedule.
- Select from every 5, 15, or 30 minutes.
- Select 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, or 12 hours.
- . Select a specific time.
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. Check the day(s) on which the report will be checked.
. Select a specific time.
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. Select the day on which the report will be checked.
. Select a specific time.
The Portal can check the same report multiple times in a single day.
- Enter a CRON expression to fine tune the alert schedule.
See CRON expressions for policy probe schedules.
for details about working with CRON expressions.
Run Status
Select or . This selection enables or disables the schedule for the report to be checked for alerts.
Time Zone
Select the time zone from the list with which the schedule can align. If you do not select a time zone, the schedule will run based on the Portal server time zone.
Email
Select the checkbox and enter comma-separated email addresses.
Subject
Enter the subject. The report name is used if the field is left blank.
Script
The user-created script needs to reside in:
/opt/aptare/portal/user_scripts
Check the box and enter a shell script name (Linux). If a path name is included, it will be appended to the above path.
For example, filter a report to include only the columns of information that you need. When the alert is triggered, a .csv file of the report is generated and the path to that file is made available to the script to take whatever actions you want with this report data.
Administrators: To enable Script delivery, refer to the following.
SNMP
When you check this box, the Port, Community string, and Management servers fields will be populated from the configured defaults. To override the defaults, overwrite any or all of the three SNMP fields.
Administrators: To enable SNMP delivery and to configure SNMP default values refer to the following.
Native Log
When this box is checked, a log entry is written to the OS-specific log: either the Windows event log or the Linux syslog.
Administrators: To enable Native Log delivery refer to the following.
Click to save the alert configuration.
Click the User Account menu and select to view the alerts. For details on managing alerts in the Scheduled Reports list refer to the following.