Editing an Alert Profile

From Alert Profile Details page click the edit alert icon to edit an already existing alert profile. Edit Alert Profile page lets you edit an already created alert profile.

Editing an Alert Profile

Select Host if you want to create an alert profile for a single host on the network. Select Group if you want to create an alert profile for a host group. This includes both default, and user-created host groups.
Choose the host or host group from the list.
Based on your requirement, you can edit the following fields:

Field	Description
Log Type	Select the log type of the event for which the alert has to be triggered. The log types that are listed depend on the platform of the host or host group selected.
Severity	Select the severity of the event for which the alert has to be triggered, one of the 8 standard event severities.
Log Message contains	If you want the alert to be triggered when an event with a specific event log message is generated, type the log message here.
Event ID	If you want the alert to be triggered for a particular Event ID, mention the Event ID here. Use comma ' , ' to separat multiple event id's.
Number of occurrences	Enter the number of times the event has to be generated before triggering this alert.
Occurring within	Enter the time interval between events, in minutes, after which this alert should be triggered.
Criticality	This is a value that you set for the alert. Criticality can be High, Medium, or Low.
Enter E-mail Address	Fill in the recipient e-mail address in the box to receive an e-mail every time an alert matching this alert profile is triggered.. Emails can be sent to more than one email address by separating the email addresses using a comma ' , '.

You will have to configure the Mail Server Settings in EventLog Analyzer before sending e-mails from the server.

Finally click Edit Alert Profile to save and activate this alert profile. Click Cancel to return to the previous page.