How to: Manage Alerts and Notifications on BIG-IP Next Central Manager

Manage alerts and notifications for BIG-IP Next Central Manager events. By default, these notifications are listed on relevant screens within the UI for the critical and warning category events.

Overview

Use these procedures to view any system alert activity and modify the notification settings.

Review Alerts

  1. Sign in to BIG-IP Next Central Manager with your current username and password.

  2. At the top right of the screen, click the bell icon.

  3. Select Alerts from the left menu of the Alert & Notifications panel. The panel displays by default all alerts in chronological order.

  4. To filter alerts you can select from the following filters:

    1. Alert Status - Specify whether you would like to see all or only active/inactive alerts.

    2. Alert Source - Specify the system event type based on its source, for example, Certificate.

    3. Object Type - Specify the object that triggered the alert, for example, a pool member (endpoint).

  5. Click the Alert Summary to view alert details.

The image below shows alert review for a BIG-IP Next Central Manager that has 2 active alerts.

Manage Notifications

The following manages notifications within the relevant screens, or stop notifications of a specific type..

  1. Sign in to BIG-IP Next Central Manager with your current username and password.

  2. At the top right of the screen, click the bell icon.

  3. From the Alerts screen you can select the check box next to the notification(s) and click Stop Notifying to stop notifications of this kind.

  4. Select Notifications from the left menu of the Alert & Notifications panel.

  5. For Generate Notifications for select which type of severity requires a notification. By default, critical and warning alerts are enabled.

  1. To specify which BIG-IP Next Central Manager sources generate notifications, select Specify from From these sources. Click the x next to resources you would like to remove from notifications.

    Note: This will not affect the alerts shown in the Alerts panel.

  2. Click Save.

BIG-IP Next Central Manager generates notifications according to your updated settings.