Verify that the definitions for the Advanced Promotion Engine are active

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title: Verify that the definitions for the Advanced Promotion Engine are active
description: Verify that the Advanced Promotion Engine definitions that come with the base system are active.
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# Verify that the definitions for the Advanced Promotion Engine are active

Verify that the Advanced Promotion Engine definitions that come with the base system are active.

## Before you begin

Role required: evt\_mgmt\_admin

## About this task

The active definitions promote a group of anomaly alerts to the All Alerts table when all of the definition's conditions are met.

You can't modify the conditions of the definitions that come with the base system. For information on creating customized definitions, see [Create a definition for the Advanced Promotion Engine](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/it-operations-management/metric-intelligence/create-advanced-promotion-engine.md).

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Advanced Promotion Engine** > **Advanced Promotion Definitions**.

2.  Select the Advanced Promotion Engine definition that you want to be active:

    -   Windows Server
    -   Linux Server
3.  Verify that the **Active** check box is selected.

4.  Select **Save**.


**Parent Topic:**[Optimizing Metric Intelligence](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/brazil/markdown/it-operations-management/metric-intelligence/optimizing-metric-intelligence.md)