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- | {{tools:alertprofiles.png|}} A complete user manual for alert profiles is supplied with NAV. | + | {{tools:alertprofiles.png|}} Alert Profiles was rewritten for NAV 3.5 and now resembles the look and feel found elsewhere in NAV. The functionality is with few exceptions the same as pre-3.5, so the general description given below is still representative. For reference though, you can browse through the |
- | {{alertprofiles:alert-profiles-manual.pdf|You can see it here}} or select Help from the sidebar meny of Alert Profiles. | + | {{alertprofiles:alert-profiles-manual.pdf|manual of the old Alert Profiles}}. Please keep in mind that the GUI |
- | The user manuel goes in detail on the various choices you have in the user interface (the manual is not quite up to date at the time of writing). | + | has changed. We will in due time make an updated manual. |
- | This wiki document complements the manual and seeks to give an overall understanding of the NAV alert profile | ||
- | concept. | ||
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====== Background ====== | ====== Background ====== | ||
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alert has any qualified recipients and forwards the alarms. | alert has any qualified recipients and forwards the alarms. | ||
- | Read more about the EventAndAlertSystem (figure, description of processes, database doc). | + | Read more about [[eventandalertsystem|the event and alert system]] (figure, description of processes, database doc). |
===== NAV profiles ===== | ===== NAV profiles ===== | ||
- | A key design principle for the new alert profile system has been maximum flexibility. We | + | A key design principle for the alert profile system has been maximum flexibility. We |
wanted a system that supports a wide range of user demands. Experience has shown that | wanted a system that supports a wide range of user demands. Experience has shown that | ||
network and systems engineers have an (incredibly) wide range of opinions of how and | network and systems engineers have an (incredibly) wide range of opinions of how and | ||
when they would like to receive alarms. | when they would like to receive alarms. | ||
- | Alert profiles is no doubt a very general and powerful system. The alpha testing of the | + | Alert profiles is no doubt a very general and powerful system. User feedback on the |
- | system has revealed, however, that the downside of being too general is complexity. The | + | system has revealed, however, that the downside of being too general is complexity. |
- | system has been far from intuitive and has required a lot of effort to grasp. A tedious | + | Improvements have been done in the 3.5 version to overcome this. |
- | amount of work has been required for each NAV user to set up his profile. | + | |
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- | As we now are entering the beta phase of NAV v3, Alert Profiles is fundamentally | + | |
- | improved in terms of user friendliness (we believe). And we have not compromised on | + | |
- | flexibility; we have in fact also improved this aspect. | + | |
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Let us explain this step by step: | Let us explain this step by step: | ||