An alert is an indication that a resource is not performing in compliance with the rules you established in the resource's monitoring plan. When OpenEdge Management triggers an alert for a resource, the following events occur:

  • The actions you assigned to the resource monitor are initiated. For example, you might define an action to send an e-mail or page an operator when an alert occurs.
  • The alert is added to OpenEdge Management's open alert table. To see the current open alerts, click Alerts > Go to Alerts from the menu bar.

The level of severity you set for an individual resource in its rules definition determines the type of alert that OpenEdge Management generates: Information, Error, Warning, or Severe. For more information, see OpenEdge Management: Alerts Guide and Reference.

All alerts (with the exception of information alerts) cause the resource status to change to Failed and the icon becomes red.

Note: You can also set up actions and alerts to respond to job status details and job execution time expectations.