Creating and Managing Alert Severities


The alert severity is the level classification set for different alerts according to the severity and processing priority of the event. Alert severities can be used for filtering alert messages and analyzing historical alert data. By numbering or describing the severity of filtered alerts, you can respond to events with different states in a timely manner.


For a specific domain asset, the alert severity definitions are typically found in its instructions. If needed, you can also customize the definitions according to your business needs or best practices in the domain.


For example, the temperature of a transformer can be divided into 3 levels according to business needs, so 3 alert severities can be set:

  • If the temperature exceeds 85℃, there is a significant safety risk for the transformer and the alert severity can be set as “fault”.
  • If the temperature of the transformer drops to the range of 84-55℃, there may be a risk and the alert severity can be set as “warning”.
  • If the temperature of the transformer drops to less than 54℃, the alert severity can be set as “message”.


The following shows how to create, edit, and delete alert severities.

Prerequisites


Ensure that you have read the limitations for alert severities. See Limitations.

Creating an Alert Severity


  1. Click Alert Engine > Alert Severities from the left navigation menu of the EnOS Management Console.

  2. Click New Severity and enter the following information in the pop-up:provide an ID, description, and tag (optional) for the alert severity.


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    • Severity ID: The identifier for the alert severity, which must be unique in the current OU and can not be edited.
    • Severity Description: The description of the alert severity.
    • Severity Tag: The tag of the alert severity. You can add one or more tags to filter the alert severities based on event characteristics. The maximum number of tags are 100. The tag consists of Key and Value, in the same alert severity, Key cannot be repeated and Value can be repeated. You can click Add Tag button to add more tags.

  3. Click Confirm.


Alternatively, you can create the alert severity for the current OU by calling the Open APIs, and the successfully created alert severities will also appear in the alert severity list. For more information, see About EnOS API.

Editing an Alert Severity


The alert severities created in Alert Engine > Alert Severities can be edited by clicking the corresponding Edit button btn_edit. Severity Description and Severity Tag can be edited but the Severity ID cannot be edited.


You can only view the alert severities created by Open APIs in the Alert Engine > Alert Severities page.

Deleting Alert Severities


The alert severities created in Alert Engine > Alert Severities can be deleted by clicking the corresponding Delete button btn_delete.


The alert severities created by Open APIs cannot be deleted in the Alert Engine > Alert Severities page.