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 actions - for events when trigger status changes from OK to PROBLEM and back
  • Service actions - for events when service status changes from OK to PROBLEM and back
  • Discovery actions - for events when network discovery takes place
  • Autoregistration actions - for events when new active agents auto-register (or host metadata changes for registered ones)
  • Internal actions - for events when items become unsupported or triggers go into an unknown state

The key differences of service actions are:

  • User access to service actions depends on access rights to services granted by user's role
  • Service actions support different set of conditions

Configuring an action

To configure an action, do the following:

  • Go to AlertsActions and select the required action type from the submenu (you can switch to another type later, using the title dropdown)
  • Click on Create action
  • Name the action
  • Choose conditions upon which operations are carried out
  • Choose the operations to carry out

General action attributes:

All mandatory input fields are marked with a red asterisk.

Parameter Description
Name Unique action name.
Type of calculation Select the evaluation option for action conditions (with more than one condition):
And - all conditions must be met.
Or - enough if one condition is met.
And/Or - combination of the two: AND with different condition types and OR with the same condition type.
Custom expression - a user-defined calculation formula for evaluating action conditions.
Conditions List of action conditions.
Click on Add to add a new condition.
If no conditions are configured, the action will run for every event that corresponds to the action type being configured.
Enabled Mark the checkbox to enable the action. Otherwise, it will be disabled.