When building alert definitions for my SAM monitors I alert on the component level so the email alerts are specific to each component issue. I set the trigger condition to Warning, Critical or Down of the component availability. When a warning threshold is breached the alert action will fire and stay active until the condition is cleared. However I've run into a problem where the initial warning status turns into a critical or a down status and the alert does not refire. It makes sense that it doesn't refire because there is no logic for the alert to ever recheck the status once its active. What I want is my alert to refire when the status changes from warning to critical/down to alert that the problem has gotten worse. Is there something I can configure so the alert RE-evaluates the trigger condition and checks for a status change?
Aside from having separate alert definitions for EACH status level I don't see another way to do this.
