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By creating multiple alert groups, you can specify where, when, and from which channel(s) alerts will be sent. You may wish to send alerts from certain groups/tabs/channels to a specific person/group, or perhaps you wish to create 'office hours' and 'after hours' support groups and have alerts route depending on the day and time of day.
The first tab ('Options') groups all the settings from 14.0. These settings let you specify the general system-level alert settings such as the minimum alert interval.
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There are many potential uses for the custom alert target. If you wish to apply some complex filtering and/or routing logic, you can use the IsHandled property to mark alerts for inclusion/exclusion. You may also wish to generate a log file of a specific format for your external log ingestion software, or perhaps would like to send alerts to an edge-logging service. As this is a standard custom-code device, you can include standard and web references, resources etc., making it easy to connect to and distribute alerts to other platforms. For example, to connect to Nagios, you could implement the following:
The Scheduling tab let's you specify when your alert group will receive events. It has three options:
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