Configure a Statistics Alert

Use the Statistics Alert to alert you when a specific statistical counter is higher or lower than the predefined threshold.

1. At the top right of the Alerts page, click New Alert from the top menu and from the list that appears, click Statistics Alert.
   
   The Statistics Alert window appears.
    
2. Use the following field descriptions to complete the Statistics Alert window and then click Save.

• Instance: Specify the monitored instance types to alert on. Instance choices in the list include: All Agents; all collectors of a specific database platform; and specific database, server, and NetApp storage collectors. You can choose one instance.
• Statistic: Click to specify the statistic you want to alert on. 
• Compare Last: Specify the time period to examine the statistic. 
• Min/Max/Avg/Sum?: Click to specify the values the comparison is based on: minimum, maximum, average or sum of the values collected during the comparison period.
• Compare Higher/Lower?: Click to specify whether an alert should be sent if the statistic value is higher or lower than the threshold.
• Threshold: Click to specify the statistic percentage to compare against.
• Alert Name: Specify a name to identify the alert on the alerts dashboard and in the alert email.
• Email: Optionally specify an alternate user to send the email alert to. If you do not specify an email address here, the email alert is sent to the Default To Email Address specified for the email server.
• Custom Email Body: Optionally specify the body content of the email alert.