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About Alerting

In large networks, possibly a large number of events occur. In general, network managers only want to be alerted about major network events such as a power failure in a backbone switch or a crash of the corporate mail-server. A non-functioning printer is simply less important and can wait - especially when Alerts are sent to a pager or mobile phone during the weekends. The Monitor one Alerting facility called "The Alerter" allows you to define when and how to alert.

Monitor one distinguishes 6 event types:

1. Status events --> No response from device, Responding again, Status unknown
2. Threshold events --> Threshold exceeded, Below threshold value
3. Trap received events
4. Sensitivity events
5. Syslog message received events
6. Extensive Monitoring events

All event types except the Extensive Monitoring events can generate an alert!