Using Alert Center and actions

In previous versions of WhatsUp Gold, you could only receive alerts on active and passive monitors. Alert Center brings alerting in WhatsUp Gold full-circle, by introducing alerts for performance monitors, the WhatsUp Gold system, and WhatsUp Gold Flow Monitor plug-in.

The table below illustrates the feature 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

Though Alert Center is a powerful component of your network management solution, you will still leverage traditional alerting. The two features do not mirror one another and operate differently. While Alert Center relies on visual cues and email notifications, there are many different types of tasks you can perform using actions, such as service restarts, system reboots, sending text messages, and more. Neither feature is meant to be used exclusively, but rather should be used strategically to support your network management requirements. Together, Alert Center and actions complete alerting in WhatsUp Gold.

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

For more information on alerting through Alert Center, see About notification policies.