About the Action Library

The Action Library shows all of the actions configured for your network. These actions can be assigned to any device or monitor, or included in an action policy. When you assign the action to a device or monitor, you specify the state change that will trigger the action.

To open the Action Library, from the main menu of the WhatsUp Gold console, select Configure > Action Library.

From this dialog, you can:

• Create a new action. Click New. After the action has been created, it can be associated to one or multiple devices or monitors. You can create the following types of actions to send a message or take an action when the status of a device or monitor changes.
  • Beeper
  • Sound
  • Pager
  • Program
  • Service Restart
  • SMS
  • SMTPMail
  • Syslog
  • Text to Speech
  • WinPopup
  • Web Alarms
  • Action Script
• Make changes to an action. Select the action you want to modify and click Edit. Changes made here effect each instance of the action.
• Copy an action. To create a copy of an action so you can base a new action on the setup information of an existing one, select the action and click Copy. You can then edit the new copy as needed.
• Remove an Action from the Action Library, devices, and monitors. To remove an Action from both the Action Library and any device or monitor to which it is assigned, select the action, then click Delete. This is a global delete of the selected action; the action is removed from any action policy, device, or active monitor to which the action is associated.

  If you need to remove an action from a specific action policy, device, or monitor, open the properties for the policy, device, or monitor and delete it there. This removes only the specified instance of that action; the action remains in the Action Library and on other devices to which it is assigned.

  Note: Be aware that when you remove an action from the Action Library, you are removing that action from all action policies, as well as all devices and monitors that the action is assigned to. In addition, all statistics relating to that action are also deleted from the database. When you first open the Action Library, if you have not yet defined an Action, you will see the default Web Alarm, which you can assign to any device or Monitor.