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
Alerts on passive monitors
Alerts on performance monitors
Alerts on the WhatsUp Gold database
Alerts on WhatsUp Gold services
Alerts on WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor

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