APTARE IT Analytics provides a pre-defined set of rules to examine common trouble spots within your enterprise. These rules serving as templates, include configurable parameters to isolate specific conditions relevant for your environment. Once configured, you can save the custom instance of the rule and create the Alert Policy. While various use cases will drive how you configure a rule, the goal is to help you quickly and pro-actively identify problem areas and trends that require attention, before they become unmanageable. Categories to alert on include:

Using Alert rules to create a policy, you can choose to alert on the conditions you’ve specified or use reports to review the results on-demand and drill down to specifics. Because alerts can be suppressed for a variety of reasons, use reports to review the results of your criteria whenever required. See Alert Reports for a variety of ways to examine the data you’ve selected to monitor.

Each Alert Rule dictates the schedule for a policy and they are either time-based or dynamic.

Some rules are time-based, because they examine a group of events and have a pre-defined schedule (you can modify the schedule). The data collected requires a time period to extract meaningful values. For example, to derive a percentage of failures, you must collect more than one backup job. It is the time period in between runs that is examined for the conditions you set in the Alert Policy.

Some rules are dynamic - every time data is collected that matches the criteria set in the Alert Policy, the alert is triggered. These real-time Alert Rules deliver instant results using the notification method defined in the policy.

The following table lists a sample set of Alert rules by category. This is not a complete list of rules.