Monitoring Resource Events and Alerts: the Analyze Pages

The Analyze pages contain the Alert Center, the Event Center, and the Operations Center. These pages enable you to quickly view and work with alerts and events throughout your system.

An event is any sort of activity in a resource that you are monitoring. Alerts are a user-defined type of event that acknowledges a critical condition in a selected resource. You can configure SAS Environment Manager to also log events for log messages and resource configuration changes.

The Alert Center page provides a deployment-wide view of alerts and alert definitions.

The default view of the Alert Center is the Alerts tab, which displays a table with information about currently active alerts. You can use the filter controls to filter by criteria such as status, type, and priority. Clicking on an entry in the Alert Definition column in the table displays detailed information about the alert.

Although you can select the check box next to an alert and click Fixed to identify the problem as having been corrected, the Detail page for the alert enables you to not only mark the alert as fixed, but also to enter information about the resolution of the alert.

The Definition tab in the Alert Center contains a table listing all of the defined alerts. Clicking on an alert takes you to the definition page for the alert, where you can view more detailed information or edit the alert.

The Event Center page provides a deployment-wide view of all events that have been logged for resources. Alerts are automatically logged as events. You can configure SAS Environment Manager to also log events for log messages, resource configuration changes, and resource metric triggers.

To access the event center, select AnalyzeEvent Center.

The Operations Center lists resources that are down or have unfixed alerts. You can use filters to find resources and problem types of interest. This concise view displays the current number of unavailable resources and unfixed alerts, and a one line problem summary for each resource.