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2 Actions

Overview

If you want some operations taking place as a result of events (for example, notifications sent), you need to configure actions.

Actions can be defined in response to events of all supported types:

  • Trigger events - when trigger status changes from OK to PROBLEM and back
  • Discovery events - when network discovery takes place
  • Auto registration events - when new active agents auto-register
  • Internal events - when items become unsupported or triggers go into an unknown state

Configuring an action

To configure an action, do the following:

  • Go to Configuration → Actions
  • From the Event source dropdown select the required source
  • Click on Create action
  • Set general action attributes
  • Choose the operation to carry out, in Operations tab
  • Choose the conditions upon which the operation is carried out, in Conditions tab

General action attributes:

Parameter Description
Name Unique action name.
Default subject Default message subject. The subject may contain macros. It is limited to 255 characters.
Default message Default message. The message may contain macros. It is limited to certain amount of characters depending on the type of database (see Remote commands for more information).
Recovery message Mark the checkbox to turn on a Recovery message.
Recovery message is a special way of getting notified for a resolved problem. If turned on, only a single message with a custom subject/body is sent if trigger value changes to OK.
Note: To receive a recovery message, "Trigger value=Problem" must be present in action conditions; "Trigger value=OK", however, must not be present. (If "Trigger value=OK" is set, the recovery message will not work; instead you will get a full escalation of defined messages and/or remote commands in the same way as for a problem situation).
Recovery message will be sent only to those who received any messages regarding the problem before.
A recovery message inherits acknowledgement status and history from the problem event (such as when expanding {EVENT.ACK.HISTORY} and {EVENT.ACK.STATUS} macros).
If using {EVENT.*} macros in a recovery message, they will refer to the problem event (not the OK event).
{EVENT.RECOVERY.*} macros will only expanded in a recovery message and will refer to the recovery/OK event.
Recovery subject Recovery message subject. It may contain macros. It is limited to 255 characters.
Recovery message Recovery message. It may contain macros. It is limited to certain amount of characters depending on the type of database (see Remote commands for more information).
Enabled Mark the checkbox to enable the action. Otherwise it will be disabled.