Configuring Rule Actions

Actions determine what Performance Manager does when incidents occur. See Rules for details regarding rule expressions. To configure a rule action:
  1. Enter your first step here. Enter the result of your step here (optional).
  2. While adding or editing a rule expression (see Editing Rules for details), specify an action to be taken on the Configure Rule - Rule Name page.
  3. Complete the subsequent action profile page based on the settings of the action you selected.

Here is a list of available actions, along with brief descriptions and instructions for completing the corresponding action profile pages:

  • Log-only: Select this action to simply have incidents logged on the Incidents report (Performance Manager > Reports).
  • Email notification: Sends email notifications to specified users.
    1. Define who is to receive notifications using the To, CC, and BCC fields. Multiple email addresses can be entered (separated by commas).
    2. Enter the name that is to appear in notifications' From fields in the page's From field. It is recommended that this field contain the email address of the rule creator.
    3. Enter the email address that email responses are to be directed to in the Reply-To field. This is the person who should be informed of rule violations.
    4. Enter a notification message in the Message text field.
    5. Click Save.
  • Execute Action Essential: Action Essentials are Essentials that are used as powerful notification alarms. When an action Essential provides additional attributes, you are prompted here with a project attributes dialog; edit the attributes of the action Essential as required. Action Essentials must be preconfigured by system administrators. See the "Managing Essentials" section of the Performance Manager Administration Help for details regarding action Essentials.
  • Pager-Message: Sends a pager message to a specified user.
    1. Define who is to receive the pager message using the Registered Recipient Name field.
    2. Enter a notification message in the Custom text message field.
    3. Click Save.
  • SMS-Message: Sends an SMS message to a specified user.
    1. Define who is to receive the pager message by entering a telephone number in the Telephone number field.
    2. Enter a notification message in the Custom message text field.
    3. Click Save.
  • SNMP-Trap: Sends an SNMP-Trap message to a specified host that has an installed SNMP daemon that receives SNMP traps. SNMP traps can be used to expose information to Enterprise Management Systems (EMS).
    1. Define who is to receive the message by entering a host name in the SNMP Host field.
    2. Enter a port number in the SNMP Port field.
    3. Click Save.
  • Change Schedule: Changes the interval of a monitor in case of an incident. The schedule is set back to its original interval as soon as the incident closes.
    Note: If multiple rules try to change a schedule simultaneously, only the first rule is activated and changes the schedule.
    • Select the Monitors for which the interval changes in case of an incident. All monitors are listed for which the selected rule has a depending condition.
    • Specify the Interval (day, hour, minute) at which the monitor should execute while the incident is active.
Parent topic: Rules