Limit an alert rule to hypervisors.

Alerts › rules. Type sits at the top of a new rule. Hypervisor is one tick, next to network device.

files01 runs on Lab host and its type is server. A hypervisor rule does not cover that guest.

Tick hypervisor

Open Alerts › rules and press + rule. Under type, tick hypervisor. Leave the others clear. The chip says every hypervisor in Example Co, and the line says it covers 1 of 6. Lab host is the hypervisor. files01 is a server, even though it runs as a guest on Lab host, so it stays off, along with Accounts server, Reception PC, Branch router and Spare laptop. None ticked still means every type. The address is typed and not added yet.

New alert rule with the hypervisor type ticked and an email address in the contact field — New rule with hypervisor ticked. The address is typed and not added yet.

Add who is told, then read the sentence

Press add contact. The grey sentence reads: tell email ops@example.com when a warning or worse (any kind) opens on 1 machine hypervisor, and again when it resolves. Press add rule when that sentence is the one you want. This shot stops before that. Kinds left empty means every kind. A stopped guest is a separate choice on the host — Alert when a guest is stopped. Limit a report to hypervisors is the same tick on a report.

Rule editor with hypervisor ticked, an email contact, and a preview that names hypervisor — The sentence names hypervisor and ops@example.com. Add rule saves it. Nothing has been saved in this shot.

The same tick on a report is Limit a report to hypervisors. Guests on the host are Start or shut down a guest. Alerting when one guest is stopped is Alert when a guest is stopped. A network device is Limit an alert rule to network devices. The rest of the rule — kinds, severity, who is told — is Tell someone when a machine needs attention.