Configuration

To manage events, you have to familiarize yourself with the event concept first so please read the topic Concepts, which discusses this issue.

Before you begin setting up alerts you need to define all events you would like to monitor. The program will monitor all hosts with the appropriate alert defined for an occurrence of defined alerts. When the event is detected then nVision takes two steps:

1.Generate all alerts based on this event. This will also cause the execution of actions defined in those alerts. Please remember that delayed actions may never be executed – it happens when an event ends before the action has been executed. Actions scheduled to run immediately on event start and on event end will be executed always (unless the program has been shut down).

2.The event is logged in the program event log. This allows performing future analyses of the host and network performance and helps preparing reports. To read about how to see events generated, read the topic Event log.

When the problematic situation ends the event is also ended and it causes all actions scheduled to run upon event end to be executed.

Severity

Each event has defined a severity, which is designed for informational purposes. When notified, you will see the severity of the alert, which will help you to react faster to important ones.

Host status

Unlike in other similar products, host status in nVision is a calculated value, not a hard coded one. So you can define conditions when a host is considered to have status <Up>, <Down> or <Warning>. For more information about host status refer to Host status concept topic.