You can select the columns you want included in the alerts pane and the order in which these columns are displayed. By default, the Alerts pane contains the columns Date, Time, Acknowledge, Seen, Node, and Text, from left to right.
To change or reorder the columns
Click Select Columns on the View menu of an Alerts window.
In the dialog box that appears, select the columns you want in the order you want them.
To add a column, select the desired check box. Remove the check mark to remove the column from the alerts pane.
To reorder the columns, click the column you want to move, and then use the up and down arrows to move it into the desired position.
Notes:
You can also reorder columns in the alerts pane by using your mouse to drag a column heading to the left or right of its original position.
You must include the Text column. It is also recommended that you include the Severity column and place this as the leftmost column. All other columns are optional.
You can choose from the following columns:
Column | Description |
Acknowledge | Indicates whether someone or some process has acknowledged the alert. From this column, you can acknowledge the alert. |
Action List | Identifies the action list in the active alert policy that provides actions to be executed automatically when the alert is raised, acknowledged, or cleared. |
Alert Identifier | Provides the alert identifier from the event report that raised the alert. |
Alert Qualifier | Further qualifies alerts coming from the same application that have the same alert identifier. |
Application | Provides the name of the application that raised the alert. |
Application Qualifier | Provides additional information about the application that raised the alert. Commonly used to distinguish one instance of an application from another. |
Class | Indicates the type of system to which the alert applies. |
Date | Provides the date that the alert arrived at the Operations Sentinel server. |
Help | Provides the first line of the help text. See the alert details pane for the complete help text. |
Seen | Indicates whether you have marked the alert as seen. Marking an alert as seen causes the alert to no longer affect the appearance of the alerts icon, or the icon representing the alert's system in topologies. From this column, you can mark the alert as seen. |
Severity | Provides the severity of the alert. |
System | Provides the name of the managed system to which the alert refers. |
Text | Provides the first line of the text message associated with the alert. See the alert details pane for the complete text message. |
Time | Provides the time that the alert arrived at the Operations Sentinel server. |
Duplicates | Provides a count of the number of times the alert has been raised without being cleared. |