Alert Schedule

The alert schedule allows you "fine tune" the alerting functions to avoid unnecessary alerting during an extended failure. You may not want to be e-mailed every single time a failure is detected after the first alert. You can use this schedule to set how many failures must be detected before the first alert. Set how many failures must be detected for each subsequent alert, and the maximum number of alerts you feel are adequate to obtain a response from specified personnel.

Represents the number of sequential failures that must occur before the alert notification is processed. You can increase this value if you notice a large amount of false alerts being processed. On some systems, response times may not be consistent and a failure may be detected due to overhead at peak times. If the failure continues for this number of cycles, the alert will be processed.

Once the first alert has been processed, NetGong will only process the alert notification after this many sequential failures. In many cases, once a failed entry has triggered an alert, notification during every NetGong polling cycle is not usually required.

Enter the maximum number of times you want NetGong to process the alert notification. This counter is based on sequential failures without a single success.