Actions

The trigger list would be fine to look at, way better than looking at individual items, but that would still be an awful lot of manual work. That's where actions come in, providing notifications and other methods to react upon condition change.

The most common method is e-mail. If you had an action set up properly when we first configured a fully working chain of item-trigger-action in Chapter 2, Getting Your First Notification, you received an e-mail whenever we started or stopped a service, created the test file, and so on. Let's look at what actions can do in more detail.

Limiting conditions when alerts are sent

Our previous action, created in Chapter 2, Getting Your First Notification, matched any event, as we had not limited its scope in any way. Now we could try matching only a specific condition. Navigate to Configuration | Actions, then click on Create action.

Note

The following activities rely on a correctly configured e-mail setup (done in Chapter 2, Getting Your First Notification...