Simplified Operations
Alerts (Beta access only)
This week we are introducing an all new Alerts page on the Mist dashboard to help you maintain full and constant visibility across your sites. Here, you may view the full list of alerts detected on your site. You may also configure alerts to receive Email notifications for certain types of events detected on your network.
To configure your Alert Template, navigate to Monitor > Alerts and select Alerts Configuration. Click on Create Template to get started with a new template.
Choose the scope of your template to include either the entire org or limited to certain sites. Then, specify who will be receiving Email alerts – either all organization admins, all site admins, or a list of Emails which you may provide.
Please note that admins who wish to receive Email alerts need to individually enable Email notifications on their own Account settings page ( 👤 > My Account). Those who have not enabled this setting on their own account will not receive any notifications even if they are included in the Email Recipients list.
Either enable Email alerts for specific sites, or enable Org wide Email alerts
Next, on your Alert template you may choose the alert types you wish to monitor. By default all alerts are enabled and will send an Email notification. Enabled alerts without Email notifications will still be visible in your Alerts page when they are generated. Currently we generate alerts for Infrastructure, Marvis Events, and Security.
On the Alerts page you will see the list of alerts in your chosen timespan. The degree of importance is indicated by color (red=critical, orange=warning, blue=information). Filter by each type by clicking on the colored squares. Here, we can see that the PSK failure causing an anomaly is marked as critical, while the Device Offline events are categorized as a warning.
Wired Assurance
Switch Configuration Improvements
This week we have made some improvements to our Switch Configuration and Templates features. In the Switch Templates page (Organization > Switch Templates), hovering over each template will now show more details like the sites applied and the Switch hostname and MAC address.
When configuring a new port profile in the Switches page, the dot1x authentication checkbox is now removed when configuring for trunk mode.
Please note that the Switch Configurations feature is available by request only at the moment.
If you would like access to beta features, please contact support@mist.com and we can help grant you access.