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.

Working with alerts generated by monitors

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 ...

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