Adding an E-mail action
The E-mail action sends an SMTP mail message to a specific e-mail account. An E-mail action can also be used as an e-mail notification in the WhatsUp Gold Alert Center. While you can configure this action on both the console and web interface, you can only configure the Alert Center notification message on the web.
To add an E-mail action:
- From the WhatsUp Gold web interface, go to then click in the Actions Management tree. The Actions page appears.
- Click . The Edit Action page appears.
- Select from the list. The boxes for the E-mail action appear.
- Enter or select the appropriate information:
- . Enter a unique name for the action. This name displays in the Action Library.
- . (Optional) Enter additional information about the action. This description displays next to the action in the Action Library.
- Complete the information on the tab. This tab contains options pertaining to the action e-mail destination.
- Complete the information on the tab. This tab contains options pertaining to the action email message content.
- . Enter a text message or edit the default message. You can use percent variables to display specific information in the subject.
- . Enter a text message or edit the default message. You can use percent variables to display specific information in the message body.
- Click . The E-mail action is added to the Actions list.