Web Alarm Action

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Use this dialog to create a new web alarm action, or to configure an existing action already in your Action Library. For more information on how Web Alarms work, see the Web Alarms topic.

Name. The name identifies the Web Alarm action in the Action Library list.
Description. A short description of the action. The description appears in the Action Library list.
Message. Enter a short message to send to the visual cue part of the Web Alarm in the web interface. You can use percent variable codes to display specific information in the message body.
Play Sound. Select this option to play the sound file whenever a web alarm action is fired. Clear this option to only have the visual cue appear in the Web Interface.
Sound file name. Select a sound file that has been installed in your \Program Files\Ipswitch\WhatsUp\HTML\1033\NMconsole\WebSounds directory. Custom sounds added to this directory appear in the drop-down list.

Note: For Web Alarms to work properly, your browser must support embedded sound files.