Alerts generated by rules have a few differences to those generated by monitors. These rule-based alerts can be identified from within the console by clicking on the alert and checking either the Alert Details or Alert Actions pane to see if they refer to a rule as shown in Figure 8.9.
Figure 8.9: Identifying an alert generated by a rule
When you want to override an alert that's generated by a rule, the initial process is similar to that of overriding a monitor and you can manage them from within the console using the Monitoring, My Workspace or Authoring workspaces. Once you get into the override properties area of the rule however, you'll notice there's a lot less parameters to override when compared to a monitor.
The following steps will walk you through creating an override from the Monitoring workspace for an alert generated by a rule:
From an alert view in the console, right-click on the alert, choose Override the Rule...