Managing Alert Settings

Overview

Managing Alert Settings is done from the Admin menu in the Web Console menu bar.

Accessing the Alert Settings

To access the alert settings, do as follows:

1. From the Web Console menu bar, select Admin.
   The Organization Administration screen is displayed.

2. Under Settings, select Alerts. The Alert Settings screen is displayed.

The Alert Settings screen displays a list of all current alert types in the system, provides a description for each type of alert, and displays the current default status - i.e., whether they are enabled/disabled.

In this screen, you can:

• Change the default status of the alert types by enabling/disabling them

• Recalculate the number of alerts for each alert type

• Restore the display to its original default status

• Manage the settings for New Version alerts in the system

Changing the Default Status of an Alert Type

To change the default status of an alert type:

• Click the enable/disable link alongside the alert type.

• Click Save and Apply to save the changes.

Note: Disabling security alerts will permanently erase all historical alert data, including individual alert details and comments.
Re-enabling alerts will not recover this data.
Please proceed with caution.

Recalculating Alerts

After you have made changes in the Alert Settings screen, you might want to recalculate the number of alerts in the system.

To recalculate the number of alerts generated in the system:

• Click the Recalculate Alerts button.

Note: Recalculating all alerts in the system is a heavy operation that can take a long time depending on your organization.

The results of your recalculated alerts will be visible in the Organization Alerts section of the Mend Home page dashboard. For details, see https://docs.mend.io/legacy-sca/latest/working-with-the-web-based-application#WorkingWiththeWeb-BasedApplication-Overview.

Restoring Alerts to Defaults

To restore the alerts to their default statuses:

• Click the Restore to Defaults button.

Managing the New Version Alerts Settings

In the Alert Settings screen, you can also manage the settings for New Version alerts in the system. New Version Alerts are triggered when a library is found to be out-of-date (i.e., it is not updated to the latest version).

To manage the New Version alerts settings:

1. Select one of the following options:
   Show Only Major Version Updates (selected by default)
   Show All Version Updates

2. If required, you can also choose to display version updates for the source libraries by clicking the checkbox Show Version Updates for Source Libraries.

3. Click Save and Apply to save the changes.

After saving and applying your changes, the number of New Version alerts will be displayed in the Organization Alerts > Libraries section of the Mend Home page. Clicking on this number opens the Licensing and Compliance Alerts page filtered to show the details of the alerts filtered according to the New Version alerts. For details, see Licensing and Compliance Alerts.

Saving Alert Settings

If you made any changes to the enable/disable status of an alert type or if you made any changes to the New Version alerts options, click the Save and Apply button to apply your changes.

The results of your changed alert settings will be visible in the Organization Alerts section of the Mend Home page dashboard. For details, see https://docs.mend.io/legacy-sca/latest/working-with-the-web-based-application#WorkingWiththeWeb-BasedApplication-Overview.