SolarWinds UDT - Adding Alert Actions; Available Advanced Alert Actions

Using Orion Platform Advanced Alerts
Adding Alert Actions
Orion Network Performance Monitor provides a variety of actions to signal an alert
condition on your network. These alert actions are available for both basic and
advanced alerts, and the following procedure assigns actions to the alert conditions
that you have defined for your network.
To add an alert action:
1. Click Start > All Programs > SolarWinds > Network Performance monitor >
System Manager.
2. Click Alerts > Active Alerts, and then click either Configure Basic Alerts or
Configure Advanced Alerts, as appropriate.
3. Check the alert to which you want to add the action, and then click Edit Alert.
4. Click Actions, and then select the action you want to edit.
5. Click Add Alert Action, and then click the action to add to your chosen alert.
For more information about individual alert actions, see "Available Advanced Alert
Actions."
Available Advanced Alert Actions
The following sections detail the configuration of available alert actions:
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Sending an E-mail / Page
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Playing a Sound
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Logging an Advanced Alert to a File
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Logging an Advanced Alert to the Windows Event Log
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Logging an Advanced Alert to the NetPerfMon Event Log
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Sending a Syslog Message
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Executing an External Program
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Executing a Visual Basic Script
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Emailing a Web Page
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Using Text to Speech Output
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Sending a Windows Net Message
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Sending an SNMP Trap
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