| Parameter | Description |
| Active | Use this field to activate or deactivate a line of configuration. |
| Status | Define the type message status to look for. |
| Period | Defines the period of time in which the probe will look for messages. |
| Component | Defines the xi component associated with the messages. The exact component name must be specified here. |
| Sender | A filter for the sender of the messages. |
| Receiver | A filter for the receiver of the messages. |
| Interface | A filter for the message interface. |
| Max. messages | The threshold of the alarm generated if an equal or greater number of messages pass the alarm filter. |
| Aggregates | If not set, threshold will be compared to the number of messages grouped by Sender, Receiver and Interface. If set, the threshold will be compared to the cumulated number of messages. |
| Severity | The default severity to apply when the simple threshold syntax is used. |
| Auto clear | If checked, the alarm will be cleared as soon as the alarm condition is not met anymore. |
| Alarm tag | This field allows to add custom text within the alarm message. %MSG% variable will contain the actual generated message and can be used such as: “my_prefix %MSG% my_suffix”. By default, tag will be used as prefix. |
| Alarm | If checked, this line of surveillance will be used for alarm generation. |
| Metric | If checked, this line of surveillance will be used for metric generation. |
| Report | If checked, this line of surveillance will used for showing threshold and severity in the daily report |