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Select 4Your organization has recently implemented an enterprise network assurance system to monitor critical network infrastructure. As part of the deployment, you are tasked with validating the alert configuration and ensuring alerts are properly triggered when specific thresholds are breached. An alert was configured to notify the team if bandwidth utilization on any WAN link exceeds 80%. During testing, you notice that no alert is generated even though one of the WAN links shows 85% utilization. Which of the following steps should you take to resolve the issue?
- A
Verify that the alerting system is enabled and operational.
- B
Ensure that the WAN link is correctly included in the scope of the alert configuration.
- C
Check if the monitoring tool has sufficient privileges to collect bandwidth utilization data.
- D
Increase the threshold to 90% and retest the alert functionality.
- E
Review the alert notification settings to confirm that alerts are correctly routed to the team.
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Correct answers: A, B, C, E
Explanation
Validating alert configuration and functionality involves a systematic approach to ensure that all components of the alerting process are working correctly. This includes verifying the alerting system's operational status, ensuring the monitored objects are within the scope of the alerts, confirming that the monitoring tool has proper access to collect data, and checking that notifications are set up correctly to reach the intended audience. Increasing the threshold is not a validation step but a change in configuration, which does not address the core issue.
- A. Correct.
If the alerting system is disabled or not operational, alerts will not be triggered regardless of the network conditions.
- B. Correct.
The WAN link must be included in the scope of the alert configuration to ensure it is monitored for threshold breaches.
- C. Correct.
If the monitoring tool lacks sufficient privileges to collect data, it will not detect the bandwidth utilization accurately, preventing alerts from being triggered.
- D. Incorrect.
Increasing the threshold would not resolve the issue; instead, it might further delay or suppress necessary alerts.
- E. Correct.
If the notification settings are incorrect, alerts may be generated but not routed to the intended recipients, making it appear as if no alerts are being triggered.