Step 2: Ensure monitors are configured for important devices

In order for you to receive alerts on monitor events, you must first have monitors configured on the devices for which you want to receive alerts. Be sure to create monitors to collect the types of information for which you want to be alerted. For example, Nick, the network administrator from Step 1, has created a Domain Service (DNS) active monitor for his web server, and an SNMP Trap passive monitor for his mail server. He has also enabled the Disk Utilization performance monitor for his four storage servers.

For information about configuring and assigning DNS active monitors, see Using active monitors.

For information about configuring and assigning Windows Event Log passive monitors, see Using passive monitors.

For information about configuring and enabling memory performance monitors, see Using performance monitors.

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Getting started with WhatsUp Gold alerting

Step 1: Identify important devices

Step 3: Configure alerts for important devices

Step 4: Configure action policies