Viewing The Alert Notification Counter; Viewing The Ten Most Severe Recent Active Alerts - HP HPE VAN SDN Controller 2.7 Administrator's Manual

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Viewing the alert notification counter

The alert notification counter is displayed in the top banner and appears on all controller screens.
This counter indicates the number of active alerts:
The controller increments this counter when each new alert occurs.
The controller decrements this counter when you acknowledge an alert or when the controller
deletes an alert according to the alert policies set for aging out alerts (for details see,
"Configuring how alerts age out" (page
Figure 6 Alert notification counter

Viewing the ten most severe recent active alerts

To display a summary of up to 10 alerts ranked by severity (highest to lowest) and then by date
and time (newest to oldest):
• In the top banner, click
The Alerts as of today window is displayed.
Description
Indicates the category for this alert. Multiple origins can contribute alerts to the same
topic.
Identifies the controller that generated the alert. The controller is represented as a
hexadecimal number. When you use controller teaming, this ID enables you to identify
which controller in the team generated the alert.
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