ALERT

Automated Local Event Reporting in Real Time. Network of automatic raingauges that transmit via VHF radio link when precipitation occurs. Some sites are also equipped with other sensors such as temperature, wind, pressure, river stage or tide level.

A feature that notifies a user by e-mail when there is a change to an item, document, list, or document library on the Web site. For example, a user can create an alert to receive an e-mail message whenever a document is updated in a specific document library. Note: This feature was previously called subscription.

Attack and Launch Early Reporting to Theater.

A message that the enterprise search engine broadcasts (for example, to a front-end application, or a messaging system such as e-mail, SMS or IM) when a document satisfies a stored query. Alerts are either near real-time or configured as asynchronous events run on a scheduled basis.