Built-in Action Types

When you apply active monitors, you typically associate an action and a device state with changes observed by the monitor. There are three main categories of built-in action types available through the Actions Library. Actions can be triggered or scheduled.

Note: Certain actions (CM Actions, for example) can be invoked on demand (Run Now).

Built-in action types include:

Notifications. Send messages to stakeholders and responsible individuals according to site policy.
Remote execution. Create scripts, execute remote programs, and apply configuration changes.
Log. Include state change observed by WhatsUp Gold in platform logs.

Notifications

Beeper action. Activate a beeper with this type of action.
E-mail action. Send an Email to a specific address.
Pager action. Send a message to a pager.
Post To MS Teams action. Generate a custom notification message, or adaptive card, in MS Teams.
Post To Slack action. Post a message to a specific Slack channel or user.
Web Alarm action. Activate a Web Alarm in the WhatsUp Gold Web Interface
Text to Speech action. Plays a voice message on your computer.
SMS action. Send a text message to a specific target.
SMS Direct action. Send a text message to a wireless phone or other wireless device.
Sound action. Play a specific sound.

Remote/Local Script or Execution

Service Restart action. Start or stop a Windows service.
Active Script action. Write code to perform a customized action.
Configuration Management action. Perform script or task from CM Task (includes Task Scripts) or CM Script Libraries.
OpsGenie Alert Management action. Generate a request to either open or close an OpsGenie alert using a WhatsUp Gold-specific API key.
PowerShell action. Develop custom actions through direct access to scriptable component libraries, including the .NET Framework.
SSH action. Connect to remote devices via SSH to execute commands or scripts.
Program action. Execute an external application.
SNMP Set action. Use SNMP to increase a counter, set a flag, or change the attribute value of a managed object.
Post To IFTTT action. Trigger an action using one of several available applications supported by the IFTTT service.
Create ServiceNow Incident action (Create ServiceNow Incident Action, http://www.). Generate a ServiceNow ticket.
VMware action. Use the VMware API to perform an action on a virtual machine.

Log

Log to Text File action. Write a message to a text file.
Windows Event Log action. Write an event in the Windows Event Log.
Syslog action. Write a message to a log in the Syslog system.