Viewing and Editing Alert Definitions
Last Updated January 31, 2025

In
VMware Aria Operations for Networks
, you can view various alert definitions and list of alerts related to the alert definitions.
VMware Aria Operations for Networks
has the following types of alert definitions:
  • Problems
    : Logical or physical problems detected by
    VMware Aria Operations for Networks
    in the environment. A problem can be something involving any entity, property, or metric. For example, a router interface failing or percent of packet drops of an interface crossing a certain threshold can be detected as a problem.
  • Changes
    : Changes that are detected by
    VMware Aria Operations for Networks
    in the environment for an entity, or properties and metrics of an entity. Create, update, and delete qualifies as a change.
  • Others
    : Alerts that are generated by external data sources, and not defined by
    VMware Aria Operations for Networks
    . For example, NSX-T alerts, Kubernetes alerts, and so on.
To view the alert definitions, on the
Settings
page, click
Alerts and Notification
Alert Definitions
.
All the alert definitions of type Problem are displayed in the
Problems
tab.
All the alerts of type
Problem
are also logged into syslog.
All the alert definitions of type Changes are displayed in the
Changes
tab.
All the alert definitions of type Others are displayed in the
Others
tab.
When you point the mouse on each alert, you can see the name, the description, alert tags for that alert.
You can perform the following tasks on the alerts:
  • Edit an alert
  • Deactivate an alert.
  • Perform bulk edit, enable, and deactivate