Any term representing a system in your landscape is interpreted as a system ID, so you can restrict your search to specific systems.

Next to the usual search operators OR, quotation marks ["], asterisk [*] and question mark [?] you can use minus [-] to search for matches not containing the term immediately following the minus sign.
 

Example:  If the system PRD exists in your landscape, the search term "Security PRD" searches for the string "Security" in reports related to system PRD. In the result list, however, you may find additional systems as well, because the search function also checks whether the same paragraph exists in reports for other systems.

Alerts with rating Yellow (Warning) and Red (Alert) are connected to the report rating Critical. Only alerts for the most important topics have the rating Decisive Red which causes the report rating Very Critical.

SAP EarlyWatch Alert reports are processed once per week, so it is sensible to check the reports on a weekly basis.

In order not to miss a new alert if there is a delay processing or checking the reports, the period, in which the alert is considered as new after the first appearance, is slightly longer than one week. Therefore, this period always starts with last week’s Monday.

The SAP EarlyWatch Alerts are divided in nine categories and different sub-categories. If for an alert no meaningful sub-category is available, Others is used. For every sub-category, the number of different alerts for the current filter settings is displayed in brackets.

To select the desired categories, you can either enter search terms or choose existing values for the alert categories. Among others, the control supports the following functions:

•   To display only alert categories in the dropdown entries that contain a specific search term, enter that term in the entry field. Now you can select the desired entries; if you want to select all displayed entries, just select any check box and press CTRL + A.

•   If more than one entry is selected, by default one entry and the text More is displayed in the entry field. Choose More to display all selected entries.

By default, all alerts are Relevant. Using the icons for Hide Alert or Snooze Alert you can define alerts for specific systems.

Click the icon to display the corresponding tabs for the alerts. By default, only relevant alerts are displayed.

You can mark alerts as Hidden or Snoozed if they are permanently or temporarily not relevant. Select the corresponding icon in the row of the alert and select a reason why the alert is not relevant. For snoozing an alert, also select a due date when the snooze time should end. When this time has passed, the next occurrence of the alert is relevant again.

This alert action is performed exactly for the systems in the system list. For other systems this alert is not hidden or snoozed.

To display the alert in the tab Relevant again, select Show Alert in the corresponding row.
 

Notes:
•   Hiding or snoozing alerts always applies to all users. It is not a user-specific setting.
•   If alerts occur again in the future during when they are not relevant, no notifications will be sent.
 

To show, snooze, or hide alerts, you need the authorization Manage Alert(s) in SAP EarlyWatch Alert for all S-users. To make it transparent which of these actions were performed by which employee and for what reasons, you can display these actions in the Activity Log.

You can mark alerts as Hidden if they are not relevant. Select Hide Alert in the row of the corresponding alert and select a reason why the alert is not relevant. These alerts are hidden exactly for the systems in the system list. For other systems this alert is not hidden.

To display the alert in the tab Relevant again, select Show Alert in the corresponding row.

Notes:

•   Hiding alerts always applies to all users. It is not a user-specific setting.
•   If hidden alerts occur again in the future, no notifications will be sent.
 

To show or hide alerts, you need the authorization Manage Alert(s) in SAP EarlyWatch Alert for all S-users. To make it transparent which alerts are defined as hidden or relevant by which employee and for what reasons, you can display these actions in the Activity Log.
 

You can mark alerts as Snoozed if they are not relevant for you temporarily. Select Snooze Alert in the row of the corresponding alert and select a reason why the alert is not relevant. Also select a due date when the snooze time should end. When this time has passed, the next occurrence of the alert is relevant again.

These alerts are snoozed exactly for the systems in the system list. For other systems these alerts are not snoozed.

To display the alert in the tab Relevant again, select Show Alert in the corresponding row.

Notes:

•   Hiding alerts always applies to all users. It is not a user-specific setting.
•   If hidden alerts occur again in the future, no notifications will be sent.

To snooze alerts, you need the authorization Manage Alert(s) in SAP EarlyWatch Alert for all S-users. To make it transparent which alerts are defined as hidden, snoozed, or relevant by which employee and for what reasons, you can display these actions in the Activity Log.

In the Activity Log, the following actions are displayed:
 

•   Hiding or unhiding an alert for specific systems –  You can define alerts as Hidden if they are not relevant by choosing Hide Alert in the row of the corresponding alert. These alerts are hidden exactly for the systems selected at that time in the system list.

•   Snoozing or unsnoozing an alert for specific systems – You can define alerts as snoozed if they are temporarily not relevant by choosing Snooze Alert in the row of the corresponding alert. These alerts are snoozed exactly for the systems selected at that time in the system list. After the snooze time has ended, the next occurrence of the alert is relevant again.
 

Both actions always apply to all users, and no notifications will be sent for hidden or snoozed alerts. Therefore, it is important that this action is transparent to all users.

In the Activity Log the following actions are displayed:
 

•   Hiding or unhiding an alert for specific systems – You can define alerts as Hidden if they are not relevant by choosing Hide Alert in the row of the corresponding alert. These alerts are hidden exactly for the systems selected at that time in the system list. Hiding alerts always applies to all users, and no notifications will be sent for hidden alerts in the future. Therefore, it is important that this action is transparent to all users.

•   Snoozing or unsnoozing an alert for specific systems – You can define alerts as snoozed if they are temporarily not relevant by choosing Snooze Alert in the row of the corresponding alert. These alerts are snoozed exactly for the systems selected at that time in the system list. After the snooze time has ended, the next occurrence of the alert is relevant again. Snoozing alerts always applies to all users, and no notifications will be sent for snoozed alerts during the snooze time. Therefore, it is important that this action is transparent to all users.
 

For every action, the following information is displayed:

•   User who performed the action

•   Action performed

•   Time of the action

•   Title and description of the alert in question

•   Affected systems

•   Reason for the action

•   For snoozing an alert, the end of the snoozing time, when the next occurrence of the alert is relevant again.
 

Note:  The items displayed in the Activity Log do not depend on the settings in the global filter.