Hari - I am guessing that this would be available to admins as well as regular users (we show only events to users)
I am digressing a bit here, but would it be possible to selectively suppress alerts in a zone - say admin is carrying maintenance or something terrible has happened for that zone ? Also can we alert the user in case the vm crashes ? Currently we alert only the admins. Thanks, -Nitin On 19-Dec-2012, at 5:05 AM, Hari Kannan wrote: > Customers have filed enhancement request to request a way to delete alerts. > They would prefer not to do it through the database, instead want to > acknowledge alerts and remove them. Some of these alerts are months old and > makes no sense to keep, according to them. Currently there is no way to > control Alerts via API (you can only list them). They would prefer not to do > it through the database but as stated above, there is no way today to > acknowledge and remove them. > > Requirements: > > - Able to select one or more alerts/events and delete them using API > or UI > > - Able to archive the selected alerts/events instead of delete - > archive will not show them on the UI/listed via API, but will still be > maintained in the DB (for auditing/compliance purposes) > > - Ability to delete alerts by a time period > > - Ability to delete alerts by a "category"? > > - Introduce "alert.purge.delay" - alerts older than specified number > of days will be purged. Value set to 0 to never purge events automatically > (there already exists an "event purge delay" global config > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Huang [mailto:alex.hu...@citrix.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 3:23 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Ability to delete/archive Alerts and Events > > Can you send out what you believe to be the requirements for this feature? > > For example, is it all manual operation? Do we need any auto-archive > function? > > --Alex > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Sanjay Tripathi [mailto:sanjay.tripa...@citrix.com] >> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 9:59 PM >> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: [DISCUSS] Ability to delete/archive Alerts and Events >> >> Hi all, >> >> In CloudStack, we have notification services like Alerts and Events >> that helps admin in managing the cloud. Admin can get a list of Alerts >> and Events but there is no way to control them i.e. to acknowledge and >> delete/archive them, the only way to delete them is though the >> database. Sometime the alerts in the database are months old and make no >> sense to keep them. >> I am planning to add this functionality so that admin can delete or >> archive the acknowledged Alerts/Events based on parameters like id, >> type , time etc. CS admin can manage them by using the APIs or through >> CloudStack UI. >> >> I am working on FS and will share it shortly. >> >> Please let me know your comments/suggestions. >> >> Thanks, >> Sanjay
