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Ack Alerts and Who Acknowledged and is Working on the problem

mhh351

From the Web Interface:

Is there a way to acknowledge an alert?

Is there a way to show WHO acknowledged the alert?

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FormerMember

It's not a view, it's a resource callled "All triggered alerts". It's on the home page by default.

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wvitalec

I was just about to submit a request for this exact same thing. Being with a large company there are many network people that acknowledge alerts and should not. I need a way to find out who acknowledged the alert and when.

qle

This capability has been available since the introduction of Advanced Alerts, I believe. (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong here.) Stepping back a bit, I don't think it's possible to acknowledge basic alerts. Therefore, if you want to take advantage of this capability, you'll need to recreate your basic alerts as advanced alerts. The following is a quick rundown of the steps to acknowledge advanced alerts which is very simple.

Click Alerts in navigation menu
By default, basic alerts are show. Simply select "Advanced" from the "Select an Alert Engine" dropdown
Check the boxes of the alerts that you would like to acknowledge and hit the button at the bottom to acknowledge checked alerts
When the page refreshes, the "Acknowledged by" and "Acknowledged Time" columns are updated accordingly

wvitalec

I don't want to acknowledge basics alerts so yo uare correct there; however, if I have multiple network people across the country or even another continent, can I see who acknowledged an alert there? I would like to see who is acknowledging advanced alerts; who, what time and any other info that would be helpful. Any thoughts on this?

qle

Yes, once the alert is acknowledged, the alert will indicate:

who acknowledged
whether they acknowledged from System Manager or the web console
date and time of acknowledgement

Here's a sample.

ackalert.png

kweise

Under the advanced alerts section of the alerts page will show you all of your active alerts. Make sure your users have rights to acknowledge alerts. The name of the person who acknowledged the alert as well as the time they acknowledged the alert will be shown on the page until the alert is either reset or manually cleared. See the attached photo for details.

AdvAlertAcknowleged.png

familyofcrowes

Is this still available in 9.5? I cannot seem to find this view anywhere.

I also need to do the same thing for events....

Thanks

FormerMember

It's not a view, it's a resource callled "All triggered alerts". It's on the home page by default.