Actions Tab in the Web Console Attribute Editor

The Attribute Editor Actions page enables you to instruct the software to perform a predetermined action if an alarm occurs.

Acceptable actions include scripts that are stored in the /var/opt/SUNWsymon/bin directory. These scripts execute with root permissions.

For example, you can provide the name of a script in the critical action field. This script might send an email to a system administrator whenever a critical alarm is generated for the Load Average Over the Last 5 Minutes data property.

You can set separate actions for different alarm conditions. You can also define a single action to occur when any change happens to any of the alarm conditions. To define actions, you use the Action buttons on the Actions page.

The check boxes that are to the right of the Action buttons enable you to specify automatic or manual execution of a specific alarm action. By default, all actions are set for manual execution. Only manual actions can be modified.

Use the Alarm Action Modification dialog box to modify the registered alarm actions. Two buttons in the dialog box (Email and Generic) allow you to choose one of two options for an alarm action.

Email

Enables you to specify an address, subject, and message to be sent as email

Generic

Enables you to select generic shell scripts that are installed on the managed node