Alert preconfiguration tasks in the SolarWinds Platform
This topic applies only to the following products:
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted
DPAIM — IPAM — LA — NAM — NCM — NPM — NTA — SAM — SCM — SRM — UDT — VMAN — VNQM — WPM
Some alerts require extra configuration, separate software installations, or information that you may need to request from other departments.
Alert actions that require set up before creating or configuring alerts include:
- Send an email or page in the SolarWinds Platform
- Dial a paging or SMS service in the SolarWinds Platform
- Play a sound when an alert is triggered in the SolarWinds Platform
- Send an SNMP trap in the SolarWinds Platform
- Use the speech synthesizer to read alerts in the SolarWinds Platform
Monitored objects in the SolarWinds Platform database must exist before creating or configuring alerts. Monitored objects can include items such as nodes, databases, and applications.