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title: Alerts
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Alerts are used in SCM-Manager to alarm users and administrators to vulnerabilities in SCM-Manager. 

Current alerts are indicated by a shield icon with a number to the left of the search box in the header of SCM-Manager. The number indicates the number of issues. If there are no known vulnerabilities for the installed version SCM-Manager the icon will not be displayed.

![alerts in head](assets/alerts.png)

Hovering or clicking the shield icon opens a list of issues. Issues are linked to a related resource. This resource usually describes the vulnerability and steps to address the issue.

![alerts in head](assets/alerts-list.png)

Alerts are removed as soon as the issue is resolved in your instance, e.g. by upgrading to a fixed version.