CMS Alerts Logging

From 12.4.3 onwards, every action on Alerts will generate a log message in management message logs when it is triggered, acknowledged, and cleared. Similarly the alert creation, deletion or modification also will be logged under management audit logs.

Prerequisites:

• CMS running 12.4 firmware version.

To View the CMS Alerts Logging

1. In the CMS, navigate to Managed Server> Monitor> Logging.

2. Click the Views logs tab.

3. To view the Logs, select the Management message log or Management audit log from the drop-down in the log file field. Select the number of message from the Show last messages drop-down and auto-refreshed number of minutes from Auto-refresh drop-down.

4. The Management message log displays the details of alerts which contains information as follows:

   

   • Event, system, priority, alert name, metric, condition, threshold, duration, measured metric value, username, and a unique ID.

   • Type of alerts that are logged: Alerts acknowledged, alerts activated, alerts cleared.

5. The details of configuration of alerts are also logged under Management audit logs:

   

   • Enabled alert, disabled alert, deleted alert, added alert, and updated alerts are viewed in the management audit log.