Web Gateway 7.1.5 Product Guide - McAfee

8
Monitoring
Dashboard
Filtering alerts information
Information about alerts on an appliance is provided under Alerts on the Alerts tab of the dashboard.
You can filter the information that is displayed using several filters. The following table explains these
filters.
Table 8-2 Items for filtering alerts information
Information Description
Appliance Filter Filters alerts according to the appliances they occurred on
Click the button to display a window for selecting the appliances you want to
view alerts for.
The filter applies as soon as you close the window.
Date Filter Filters alerts according to the period of time they occurred in
Click the button to display a drop-down menu for selecting the time period you
want to view alerts for.
The filter applies as soon as you close the menu.
You can select one of the following:
• All
• Today
• Yesterday
• Last week
• Custom
Under the Custom option, you can set a start and end date on two calendars
and type a start and end time in two filter fields. The time format is
hh:mm:ss, using the 24-hours notation, for example, 1 p. m. is 13:00:00.
When an appliance is a node in a central management configuration and you
have selected several nodes of this configuration in the Appliance Filter, alerts
are shown for all nodes. They are shown, however, according to the date and
time of the user interface you are working with on a particular node to set the
Date Filter.
For example, you select Today in the Date Filter on a node in Amsterdam at
7 p. m. local time. This means all alerts that occurred during the last 19 hours
are shown. For a node in New York, local time is 1 p. m. at the time you set the
filter.
Alerts that occurred on the New York node are then shown for the last 19 hours,
not for the last 13 hours, which would correspond to what Today is for the New
York node.
Message Filter Filters alerts according to alert message types and strings within the message
texts
The filter applies as soon as you have set the filter options.
Set these options in the following way:
• Error, Warning, Information — Select the alert message type you want to
view or any combination of types.
• Filter — Optionally type a filtering term into this field. Only alerts with
message texts matching this term and the selected type or types are shown.
Note: The search for matching terms is performed on alert entries as they
are stored in an internal database on the appliance, not as they appear on
the user interface.
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When alerts appear on the user interface, the alert message text can include
additional parts. For example, the word origin is added to the name of the
component that is the origin of an alert. You can, however, not use origin or
other added terms to filter alerts.