About Alert Center

WhatsUp Gold provides a suite of libraries you can leverage to implement site availability, performance, and security policies into practice. The libraries provide building blocks for implementing availability, performance, and security models with WhatsUp Gold monitoring data.

Libraries you can use to implement site policies include:

• Thresholds Library (SETTINGS > Actions and Alerts > Alert Center Libraries)

  Create and configure customized threshold definitions and apply them to monitored devices, services, applications, and processes within your managed network. Re-use, clone, and customize as needed.

• Actions Library (SETTINGS > Actions and Alerts > Actions & Policies)

  Create and configure triggered actions (notifications, remote/local script execution, write to log) to initiate a chain of notifications to responsible individuals, apply corrective actions, mitigate and recover from performance, security, and application incidents, and uphold terms of service level agreements.

• Notifications Library (SETTINGS > Actions and Alerts > Alert Center Libraries)

  Create and configure custom e-mail, SMS, and desktop alert notifications. Used for both scheduling and distribution of incident notifications together with the Blackout Policy Library.

• Notifications Policy Library. (SETTINGS > Actions and Alerts > Alert Center Libraries)

  WhatsUp Gold provides building blocks to define rules, exceptions, and sequences of escalation to notify responsible individuals of incidents and out-of-threshold events. Applying notifications policies at your site is required by information assurance, networking security, and data security standard audits (HIPAA, SOX, PCI, CSC, and more) and an 'all-around' best practice.

See Also Alert Center Libraries Working with Notifications, Notification Policies, and Thresholds