This topic describes defining properties of different action types.
Desktop notification
Desktop alert
A small information box will show at the defined position. This box does not steal the focus and it does not disturb you in your current task.
Property
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Description
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Message
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Allows you to select the message format which will be displayed in the box.
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Auto
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Select it to display the predefined message.
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Custom
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Select to define your own message. To read more about defining your own messages, please go to the topic Defining custom alert messages.
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Sound
The program will play a defined sound.
Property
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Description
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nVision predefined sound
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Select one of the predefined nVision sounds.
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Windows system sound
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Select one of the predefined Windows sounds.
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Select file
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Click the icon and select the sound file to be played.
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Speech
This allows alert information to be read by the computer speech synthesis engine.
Property
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Description
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Message
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Allows you to select the message format which will be read by the speech engine.
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Auto
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Select it to display the predefined message.
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Custom
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Select to define your own message. To read more about defining your own messages, please go to the topic Defining custom alert messages.
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Send message
E-mail
An e-mail with alert information will be sent.
Property
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Description
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Email to
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The e-mail address to which the alert message will be sent. You can enter several e-mail addresses dividing them by commas, semicolons or spaces.
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Subject
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The subject of e-mail message. In the subject you can use variables described in the Defining custom alert messages topic.
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Message format
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Allows you to select the message format which will be used to generate alert message.
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HTML
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This is the default message format.
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Short text
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This is text only format with short information.
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Long text
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This is text only format with complete alert information.
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XML
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This is the alert information in XML format. You can use this if you would like to build your own external alert actions. Your program may receive e-mails with XML information, interpret them and do some additional tasks.
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Custom
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Select to define your own message. To read more about defining your own messages, please go to the topic Defining custom alert messages.
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ICQ
The ICQ message with an alert information will be sent.
Property
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Description
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ICQ number
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The ICQ number to which the alert message will be sent.
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Message format
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Allows you to select the message format which will be used to generate alert message.
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Custom
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Select to define your own message. To read more about defining your own messages, please go to the topic Defining custom alert messages.
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SMS via GSM
This action sends an SMS message via an attached GSM phone or modem.
Property
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Description
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Phone number
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The phone number to which the SMS message will be sent. It must start with a country code prefix (+1 for US).
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Alert message
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Check if you want the message to be presented on the phone screen immediately upon arrival.
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Auto
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This is the default message format.
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Custom
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Select to define your own message. To read more about defining your own messages, please go to the topic Defining custom alert messages.
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SysLog Message
The SysLog message will be sent to the specified SysLog server.
Property
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Description
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SysLog server address
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The address of the SysLog server.
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Syslog server port
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The port on which the server operates.
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Message
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Define your message in the edit box. To read more about defining your own messages please refer to the topic Defining custom alert messages.
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Program or script
Run program locally
With this option you can run any program on the local machine, for example to take some corrective action.
Property
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Description
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Run the program
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Click the icon and select the program to be run.
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With parameters
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Enter the parameters of the execution. You can use variables described in the Defining custom alert messages topic.
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Run program remotely
With this option you can copy and run any other program remotely, for example to take some corrective action.
Property
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Description
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Copy local program to a remote host and run
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Selecting this option causes both actions: copying and running a program.
Click the button and select the source file of the local program to be run. Then, select the destination directory on the remote host.
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Run remote program
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Click the button and select the remote program to be run.
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Other
Write to file
The alert information can be written to a file.
Property
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Description
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Write to file
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Click the button and select the file name where the alert message will be written.
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Message format
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Allows you to select the message format which will be used to generate the alert message.
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HTML
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This is the default message format.
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Short text
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This is text only format with short information.
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Long text
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This is text only format with complete alert information.
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XML
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This is the alert information in XML format. You can use this if you would like to build your own external alert actions. Your program may receive e-mails with XML information, interpret them and do some additional tasks.
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Custom
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Select to define your own message in the edit box. To read more about defining your own messages, please go to the topic Defining custom alert messages.
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Send SNMP Trap
Sends a SNMP Trap to a remote device.
Property
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Description
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Host Name
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DNS name or IP address of the remote device.
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Port
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UDP port number of the remote device.
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Community
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SNMP community name.
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PDU type
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PDU packet header type.
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Agent
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IP address of SNMP Agent.
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Trap generic
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Type of SNMP Trap.
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Notification ID
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It is required if Service type is defined as “enterpriseSpecific”.
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Send Wake On LAN packet
Sends Wake On LAN packet to the remote device.
Property
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Description
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Use host address
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Identification is performed based on the IP and MAC addresses of the device.
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MAC Address
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Target device address in the following notation AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF.
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Local Broadcast Address
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Target address of the Wake On LAN packet.
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Port
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UDP port number of the remote device.
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SecureOn password
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SecureOn password of the remote device in hexadecimal notation, e.g. AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF.
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Windows
Start/Stop Windows service
It controls the service on the remote Windows workstation.
Property
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Description
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Windows service, which has triggered the event
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Check if you want this action to be performed on the host and service for which the event is generated.
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Specific windows service
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Select if you want the action to be executed on a specific Windows computer and for a specific service.
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Host
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Select the host on which the action is to be executed.
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Service
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Select the service.
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Action
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Select the action to perform: you can start, stop, restart, pause and resume the Windows service.
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Shutdown/restart computer
This action allows you to shutdown or restart the remote Windows workstation.
Property
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Description
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Host, which the event has occurred on
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Check if you want this action to be performed on the host for which the event is generated.
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Specific host
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Select if you want the action to be executed on a specific Windows computer.
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Restart
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Check to perform system restart.
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Shutdown
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Check to perform system shutdown.
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Add entry to Windows Event Log
This action allows you to write an entry to Windows Event Log of the selected host.
Property
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Description
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Host, which the event has occurred on
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Check if you want this action to be performed on the host for which the event is generated.
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Specific host
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Select if you want the action to be executed on a specific Windows computer.
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Message type
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Select a message type (Success, Error, Warning or Information).
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