Using Alert Center and actions

Alert Center lets you receive alerts for performance monitors, the WhatsUp Gold system, and WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor plug-in addition to alerts you can receive for active and passive monitors through actions.

The table below shows the system you use to receive alerts of a particular type.

 

Actions

Alert Center

Alerts on active monitors

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Alerts on passive monitors

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Alerts on performance monitors

 

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Alerts on the WhatsUp Gold database

 

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Alerts on WhatsUp Gold services

 

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Alerts on WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor

 

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Alert Center and actions are different systems and have different functions.

While Alert Center displays alerts on the Alerts Home page and in email notifications, there are many different types of tasks you can perform using actions. Actions allow you to restart services, reboot systems, send text messages, and perform many other tasks. Used together, Alert Center and actions help you more thoroughly support and manage your network.

For more information on alerting through actions, see Using Actions.

For more information on alerting through Alert Center, see Using Notification Policies.

See Also

Configuring notifications

Alert Center Percent Variables

Using Alert Center Notification Policy options

Configuring a notification policy

Configuring an Alert Center email notification

Configuring an Alert Center SMS Direct notification

Configuring an Alert Center SMS Action notification

Configuring email notification message settings

Stopping a running notification policy

Using the E-mail Action

Using the SMS Direct Action

Using the SMS Action