Chapter 8: Setting Up Notifications

When an activity occurs on your network, WhatsUp Gold performs several different actions. WhatsUp Gold:

• Records the activity in the Activity Log (described in "Logging and Reporting Activities").
• Updates the device properties Status and Log dialog boxes
• Changes the appearance of the device icon on a map (as described in "Reading the Network Map").
• Optionally, sends a notification (as described in this chapter).

WhatsUp Gold can send a notification in several ways; it can:

• Sound an alarm
• Activate a beeper
• Execute a Program
• Stop or restart a Service
• Send a message to a pager
• Send an SMTP Mail message
• Send a pre-recorded message to a telephone (only in Windows 98 and Windows ME, and only if you have a voice modem installed).
• Send a text to speech notification
• Send an SMS notification
• Display a WinPopup on a Windows NT system
• Send a group of notifications that includes any of the above types

You can also set up a "recurring notification" to use many of the notifications to send a network status report at a specified time interval. See "Sending Recurring Notifications".

Setting up notifications involves two steps:

1. You first need to define the notifications that you want to use, such as activating a network administrator's beeper or sending e-mail to an individual. This section describes how to do this.
2. Then, you assign a notification to a particular device, selected devices, or all devices.

   For information on assigning notifications to a device, see "Assigning a Notification to an Alert".

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