Creating 'Outside geozone' alerts
Create an alert rule to get notified when an asset leaves a geozone.
this task describes the different steps to create a geozone outside alert
rule.
Procedure
- Go to Admin → Insights → Alert rules and select .
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Enter a title (name) for the alert rule you create.
Note: The title is shown to all users receiving the alert notification and consulting the dashboard. Define clear and meaningful alert titles.
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Write down a description of the alert rule (optional).
Note: Although optional, it is recommended to use the description to provide more information the end-users in order to ensure they understand the meaning of the alert rule.
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Select the severity level of the alert. Some alerts are more severe then
others. You can choose between 'reminder', 'warning' and 'critical'.
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Monitored assets defines the assets on which the alert rule will be
evaluated. You can select these assets by identifier (name, serial, MAC, IMEI),
by tag, or include all assets (all).
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Select the geozones for which you want to monitor the activity of your assets.
You can select these geozones by name, by geozone tag, or include all geozones.
In addition you should define the time period the asset should be in or out the
geozone for the alert to be given. Finally, you can choose which event types
trigger the alert. For example, you select STOP if you only want to alert to be
sent if the asset has stopped. You can select different event types if you
prefer.
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Define the application time of the alert rule. Should it Always
monitor your assets on any day at any time or do you want it only to be
monitoring your assets on certain days? For the second option, select
‘Scheduled’. Here you can select on which days, during what hours. By
clicking the button you can
add more time periods. To exclude specific days, enable the Exclude specific
dates check-box and choose the dates on which the monitoring should be
disabled. Clicking the button
to add multiple exclusion dates. Additionally, you must define the time zone the
platform should use for evaluating the alert schedule. By default the time zone
of the current user is selected.
If you want to add an e-mail or REST API notification for this alert do as following:
- By default, triggered alerts are only shown in the application. To enable the sending of notifications, click the Add notification button.
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To enable Email notifications, choose 'Email notification' in the drop-down
list and complete the following fields:
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Select 'REST push notification' from the drop-down list.
The following window appears:
Fill in the following: