• Add - to create a new alert
• Edit - to change/edit a previous existing alert
• Remove - to delete a selected alert

How do you specify a new alert?

When you click Add, the New Alert wizard opens and you can find the following settings:

• Name - type a name to identify your alert
• Enable -  select or unselect depending on whether you want to enable the alert or not. Take into account that you can create alerts and enable them later. 
• Subscribe - check this box if you want to receive alert notifications from this alert. To receive notifications, you must configure your SMTP Server settings first by clicking Configure Email. 
• Alert conditions for the Job Chain - specify the job chain conditions that generate the alert. You can use any of the following options:
  • Job Chain Execution - when you select this option, you can choose to generate an alert when there is a Failure or Success job chain status
  • Job Chain Duration - use this option to specify a time range for the duration of the job chain that will generate an alert
  • Job Chain Duration greater than - when the duration of the job chain is greater than the percentage of the Average Chain trend you specify, an alert will be generated. 
  • Job Chain failures - select this option to generate an alert when the number of job chain failures you specify is met in a determined number of days, weeks, months, or years. 
• Alert conditions for the jobs - specify the conditions for jobs in the job chain that generate the alert. You can use any of the following options:
  • Job Execution - when you select this option, you can choose to generate an alert when there is a Failure or Success status in the jobs that belong to the job chain. 
  • Job Duration - use this option to specify a time range for the duration of the jobs that belong to the job chain that will generate an alert
  • Job duration greater than - when the duration of the jobs in the job chain is greater than the percentage of the Average Trend you specify, an alert will be generated.
  • Job Failures - select this option to generate an alert when the number of job failures you specify is met in a defined number of days, weeks, months, or years. 

Click Finish to create the job chain. To add other jobs to this new job chain, go to the Job Designer.