There’s a small difference in the way you manage Pre-defined Alert Rules, which is that you must enable/disable the pre-defined Alert Rules in the CLI, as well as assign Contact Points and Notification Policies in VMX-Explorer.

To set up the pre-defined Alert Rules:

  1. Review the list of pre-defined Alert Rules and decide which ones you want to use.
    Run vmxadmin (full instructions below) to list the available pre-defined Alert Rules.

  2. For each Alert Rule you’ll use, configure Contact Points and Notification policies.
    Do this in VMX-Explorer by following the instructions here.

  3. All pre-defined Alert Rules are disabled by default. Now, enable the Alert Rules for which you’ve configured Contact Points and Notification Policies via vmxadmin (instructions below).

Important
The alerting setup is NOT complete until the suitable Grafana Contact Points are configured, and a test alert has been generated which is seen on your chosen alerting endpoint.

vmxadmin tool

vmxadmin is a command-line tool that allows you to manage various aspects of your appliance. To enable/disable/view the built-in Alert Rules for health, invoke vmxadmin:

vmxadmin grafana-alerts [enable|disable|list] [group list]

where…

  • [group list] - an optional parameter that lists the group of alerts that the command will be applied to.

  • enable - enable all alerts (or the ones specified in [group list] if it is provided).

  • disable - disable all alerts (or the ones specified in [group list] if it is provided).

  • list - list all alerts (or the ones specified in [group list] if it is provided) and whether they are enabled/disabled, or unused.