User`s guide

99NetBotz Appliance User’s Guide
Advanced View: Creating Alert Actions
The information that must be provided for an Alert Action depends on which alert notification method
you have selected. The following alert notification methods are available:
• Activate Button Output
• Call Web Services Alert Receiver
• Play Audio Alert
• Play Custom Audio Alert
• Send Custom HTTP Get
• Send Custom Text File to FTP Server
• Send Data to FTP Server
• Send E-mail
• Send HTTP Post
• Send Short Message E-mail
• Send SNMP v1 Trap
• Send SNMP v3 Inform
• Set Beacon Output State
• Set Output Switch 1
• Set Output Switch 2
• Set Switch Output State
Creating an activate button output alert action
To create an Activate Button Output alert notification method:
1. Double-click the Alert Actions icon.
2. Click Add... to open the Add Alert Action window.
3. Select Activate Button Output and click OK.
4. Enter a name for this alert action in Alert action name.
5. Specify Advanced Scheduling (optional). By default, all Alert Actions are active 24 hours a day,
7 days a week. You can specify an Alert Action to be active only when alert conditions occur
during specific time ranges. To configure Advanced Scheduling:
a. Click Advanced Scheduling.... The Advanced Scheduling window opens.
b. By default, all time periods are Enabled. To disable the alert action, click-and-drag to
highlight the time range, and click Disable. To enable a disabled time range, click-and-drag
to highlight the time range, and click Enable.
c. Click OK to save the schedule and return to the Add Alert Action window.
6. Check the alert Severities that apply to buttons to be activated.
7. To configure this alert to be carried out when violated thresholds return to a normal state, check
Also Activate on Return-to-Normal.
8. Click OK to save this Alert Action.