NMIS8 includes powerful capabilities for performance and operational thresholding, which greatly enhance network management capabilities. These thresholds result in alerts/events/notifications which NMIS can send when it sees a threshold breached. The thresholds have very granular controls which by default have been configured fairly broadly.
A A simple example of this is that you will likely what to be notified when the CPU is high on a Core device, vs an Access switch in Timbuktu. This is part of the NMIS idea of relevance of information in general, not all devices are created equal, some devices deserve better alerting, people of course are created equal.
If you want to just modify and add new thresholds reach the first section "Using the NMIS GUI to Configure Thresholds", the second section "About Threshold Controls" goes into more details about thresholds.
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