How to create a Generic Alerting Dashboard

RESOURCES

NOTE: this content has been somewhat superseded by the new template dashboard work 

The following are the resources you will need for the Generic Alert Dashboard

Setting up the Alert Sampler

The first step is to create the Alert sampler on your gateway

1. In your gateway add the alert sampler template (see in the resources above)
2. You now need to add tables and modify the SQL to produce a table of the following form (note the column names are case sensitive):

1. Add the Sampler to a suitable entity, the probe can be a virtual probe if required
2. Add the rule group that will drive the new view to your gateway -
   Alert Sampler Rule Set.xml
3. Apply the setup and ensure that your sampler is producing data via the Active Console
   
   

Setting up the dashboard

Next you need to setup the dashboard

1. Open up your console, and use file ?> import to bring in the Generic Alerting Dashboard.adb
2. Now use file --> Import to bring in the dashboard tools that you will need Generic Row Alert.adt
3. Next drag and drop each row from your dashboard alerts data view into the dashboard and select the 'Generic Alert Row' tool. You will need to align the rows and ensure that the rows at the top are (in front), and those lower down are at the 'back' of the dashboard.

SELECT
"123xyz" AS "Reference",
"Helpdesk Logfile" AS "Object",
triggerDetails AS "Description",
"Simon Forey" AS "Owner",
1 AS Score,
"My Speech Bubble Text" AS "SpeechBubbleText"
FROM <the defined table>