How to change the global thresholds for any alert (4374690)

Each alert has default values set for the Warning and Critical thresholds. The DC specific thresholds can be configured per DC or globally for all DCs. The other alerts for Site, Domain and Forest can be modified as well.

1. Login to the AA server with Admin credentials
2. Open the ActiveAdministrator directory. This is the directory that is shared as ActiveAdministrator and is typically under C:\
3. Under the DACache folder edit the file that corresponds to the alert type you want to modify
   • Default-DomainConfiguration.xml – Controls the global thresholds for Domain specific alerts
   • Default-DomainControllerConfiguration.xml – Controls the global thresholds for the DC specific alerts
   • Default-ForestConfiguration.xml – Controls the global thresholds for the Forest specific alerts
   • Default-SiteConfiguration.xml – Controls the global thresholds for the Site specific alerts
4. Scroll down to the first <Alerts> section and from there search down for the name of the alert for which you want to modify the thresholds
5. Each alert has a <Thresholds> section with Warning and Critical values. Modify the values to better suit your environment needs. 
6. Save the changes to the file and restart the AA server or all the AA services.