Monitoring Task Area: Alerts

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Published : September 27, 2005

What do you look for on the Alerts tab?

  • Current problems (critical alerts)

  • Potential problems (warning alerts)

  • Important activity (informational alerts)

  • Recommended actions

The Alerts tab displays errors, warnings, and informational messages. You can group alerts by protection group, server, or severity. You can also choose to display active alerts exclusively or to display both active alerts and inactive alerts, which are alerts that have been resolved. You can also subscribe to notifications to receive alerts sent by e-mail.

DPM ensures that the Alerts view reflects the set of issues that are currently active in the system. When the issue that generated an alert is corrected, the alert becomes inactive. In fact, many issues reported as alerts never require your intervention at all, either because they reflect temporary conditions or because they are self-correcting. For example, an alert that indicates that the DPM server is unable to contact a file server may result from a transient network issue; the subsequent attempt may be successful. In some cases, DPM automatically designates an informational alert as inactive after a pre-defined period of time. A "Recovery collection completed successfully" alert, for example, becomes inactive two days after the recovery is completed and a "New servers found" alert becomes inactive after seven days.

For more information, see the “Resolving Alerts” (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=51906) section in Data Protection Manager Help.

As a general guideline, we recommend that you:

  • View active alerts when you want to focus on active, current issues

  • Use inactive alerts as a source of information when you want to identify trends or analyze issues.