Receive and act on alerts

This process illustrates how exceptions are raised, routed and brought to closure. The sequence begins when the reconciled position is evaluated against the thresholds configured for each metric. If no threshold is defined for a metric, the event is logged and suppressed rather than raised, so that unclassified alerts do not enter the queue. If a threshold is crossed, the Portal classifies the event by severity, tags it with the pillar in which the metric is defined, and determines the recipients authorized for the data giving rise to it. Where the same unresolved event has already generated an alert, the occurrence is consolidated into the …