Managing Alert Profiles

Click the Alert Profiles link in the Settings tab, to manage all the alert profiles set up so far. Clicking the option will open the Alert Profile Details page. The page contains a menu bar and list of alert profiles available.

The menu bar contains the following menu:

• New Alert Profile - Click this link to create a new alert profile.
• Delete Alert - Select the check boxes of alert profiles to be deleted and click the Delete Alert link to delete alert profile(s).
• Export Profiles - Select the check boxes of alert profiles to be exported and click this menu. The profile will be downloaded as an XML file (EventLogAnalyzer_Profiles.xml), through your browser into your client machine.
• Import Profiles - Click this menu to import alert profiles. On clicking the menu, Import Profiles screen pops-up. In that, you will find File Location text box and Browse button besides. Enter the location of the XML file (EventLogAnalyzer_Profiles.xml) or use the browse button to locate the XML file. Click Import button to import the profiles in to EventLog Analyzer server and Cancel button to cancel the import profiles operation. If the alert profile already exist in EventLog Analyzer, clicking Import button will list Failed To Import option and the existing alert profiles with check boxes and you will find Over Write button and Cancel button to cancel the import profiles operation. Select the check boxes of alert profiles to overwrite and click Over Write button.

There will be no hosts configured for the imported alert profiles. You have to edit the alert profile to configure the hosts.

The Alert Profiles table lists all the alert profiles set up so far, along with all the details selected when the alert profile was created, such as log type, Severity/EventID, Criticality, Occurrences, etc. Click on an alert profile to see the corresponding list of alerts triggered. The toggle icon lets you enable or disable an alert profile and correspondingly start or stop triggering alerts for the same. You can edit the alert profile by clicking on the edit alert icon.

The icon lets you delete an alert profile. Once deleted, the alerts associated with this profile are also deleted from the database. The icon indicates that an e-mail notification has been set up for this alert profile.