Link action types to scheduled alerts

When a monitor detects a problem with a device, service, or process, it indicates the problem in the Dashboard. If the monitored resource is mission critical to your daily operations, you can create an alert and associate the alert with one or more actions that automatically run when the alert occurs. For example, you can add an action to the alert that sends a customized email message to a list of recipients or restart a service or list of services on a targeted Microsoft Windows workstation.

After you create an action, you can schedule the action to occur within a specific time range for each day of the week—for example, every weekday between 8AM and 5PM.

When you create an alert, you can use the Alert Wizard to walk you through the process of creating a simple email alert.

The following table lists the actions you can associate to an alert.

Action	Description
Automatic Report Email	Emails a Recent Activity report to a selected user or group of users.
Customized Email	Sends a fully-configured email message to a list of recipients.
Event Log	Writes an entry to the Windows Application Event Log of the ipMonitor host machine.
External Process	Runs a third-party executable program or script with any required parameters.
Net Send Broadcast	Enables alert messages to pop up on the desktop on a specified network computer.
Reboot Server	Reboots a Microsoft Windows workstation or server computer when a monitor encounters a problem.
Restart Service	Restarts a service or list of services on the targeted Microsoft Windows workstation or server computer.
Simple Beeper	Sends a numeric message to a simple numeric pager by simulating the touch-tone key presses.
Simple Email	Sends a dynamically formatted email to one or more users that displays the Date, Time, Monitor Name, Monitor Type, Monitor Address, Alert Name, Reason for Alert, and any custom data such as that trapped by Information alerts.
SMS Numeric Pager	Sends a numeric message through a mobile service provider to a pager device that can receive SMS messages.
SMS Text Pager	Sends a text message to an alphanumeric pager or digital phone with Short Message Service (SMS) support.
SNMP Trap	Sends an SNMP trap to the specified SNMP manager.
Text Log	Records a predefined entry to a text log at a specified location.