Adding Rules - Advanced tab

The Advanced page provides options to automatically suspend the rule and reset alert counters on Startup.

Advanced Settings section

Automatically Suspend Rule

Suspending a rule means that any further alerts can be prevented from being generated by this rule while you investigate the cause. This can also prevent an unnecessary number of alerts being generated for the same reason.

When enabled, this option automatically suspends the rule once triggered either:

Until the trigger criteria has been activated a specified number of times within a determined time frame.

For an amount of time once the rule has been triggered a specified number of times. This can be set as Minutes, Hours or Days so that repetitive alerts are not generated.

The default setting suspends the rule for 30 minutes when triggered once.

Reset Counters on Startup

Enable this option to reset the alert counters when the rule restarts. This ensures any historical alerts still in the system are ignored by the monitor. A restart can be either a full system restart or when the rule is edited and then saved.

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