8.0 Configuring Alerts

Everything that happens in your environment creates an event. Most events are everyday occurrences and do not require any action on your part. A set of similar or comparable events in a given period, however, might indicate a potential threat. Alerts notify you of what is most important for you to look at. Alerts can relate to threats to IT resources or performance thresholds such as system memory full or IT resources not responding.

This chapter provides the following information: