You can customize the alert monitor to adapt when alerts are triggered. You can also define and modify methods, their assignment and their configuration.

You can make specific settings for the following components:

• MTE classes

• Attribute groups

• MTE-specific elements

Customizing in the alert monitor is very convenient. You can access it directly from every monitoring tree element and it provides you with a basis for defining rules and thresholds. You can define comparison values (thresholds) that trigger an alert when exceeded, or fallen short of. You can determine, for example, the weighting of the alerts to be triggered. You can also set permanent thresholds for monitoring attributes.

If you make changes to properties of MTEs in the alert monitor, your changes are saved permanently in the database. Even if a collection method tries to reset the changes to their original state, your changes are preserved and therefore remain in effect in the alert monitor.

The general Customizing settings are valid for all monitor tree elements. However, you can only make type-specific settings for monitoring attributes.

Grouping several monitoring attributes saves you administration duties. To avoid having to maintain the same Customizing settings for many monitoring attributes and then save them in the database, you can assign monitoring attributes to attribute groups. You then only need to maintain the attribute groups. All monitoring attributes assigned to this group are automatically given the new or changed settings.

By editing and saving the relevant attribute group, the corresponding monitoring attributes are assigned the settings saved for this group.