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Select the Alerts Scope, Recipients, and Types to Monitor

To select alerts:

  1. From the left menu, select Monitor > Alerts, and then click Alerts Configuration.
  2. On the left side of the page, click the template to configure.

    All organizations are preconfigured with a default template. You can create different templates for different locations or purposes.

  3. Under Applies to Scope, select one of these options:

    • Entire Org—The alerts that you select in this template apply to the entire organization.

    • Sites—The alerts that you select in this template apply to the specified sites. Click + to add a site. Or click X to remove a selected site.

  4. (Optional) Under Email Recipient Settings, identify personnel to receive any email notifications that you enable.
    Note: Here, you're identifying the recipients. In the Alert Types section, you'll enable the notifications for the alerts that you want to monitor via email.

    You can select all organization admins, all admins for the sites specified in the Scope section, or additional recipients who aren't HPE Mist admins.

    Note: This feature requires that the selected admins enable email notifications in their account settings. They can find their account settings by clicking the HPE Mist Account button (person icon) at the top-right corner of the HPE Mist management portal.
  5. Under Alert Types, select the events that you want to monitor on the Monitor > Alerts page (Enable Alert check box) or via email (Send Email Notification check box).

    • For information about the various alerts, see Alert Types.

    • Use the expand/collapse icons on the left side of the alert Types section to focus on specific alert types.

      User interface for managing alert types with sections for alert categories and security alerts. Includes checkboxes to enable alerts and email notifications. Security alerts expanded to display specific alerts like rogue AP detected and switch DDoS protocol violation clear.

  6. If an alert has a pencil icon, click it to configure the settings.

    For example, if you click the pencil icon for DNS Failure, you can set the threshold based on the number of failures, the impacted clients, and the duration.

    Edit DNS Failure Threshold window with settings to trigger alerts for 30 failures or 20 clients failing within 10 minutes per server. Global setting applies organization-wide. Save and Cancel buttons at bottom.
  7. Click Save at the top-right corner of the configuration area.