Uptime Infrastructure Monitor uses action profiles to perform recovery steps when a service monitor returns a critical status. Action Profiles are templates that define an action to perform when a monitor encounters a problem and can be applied to one or more service monitors.
An Action Profile allows you to specify:
When to start and stop performing the action (escalations).
The name of the log file to which Uptime Infrastructure Monitor writes error information.
The name and location of a recovery script that can reboot a server or restart an application, process or service. The name of a Windows host and service, as well as whether to start, stop or restart the host or service.
An SNMP trap to be sent to a specific traphost and trap community.
Use the following steps to create an action profile:
- Click on the Services tab.
- Click the Add Action Profile link on the left tree menu.
- Set up the action profile to perform the desired steps (e.g. log to file, run a script, start / stop Windows service, send an SNMP trap, etc.) and click Save.
Next, attach the action profile to an existing service monitor with the following steps:
- Click on the Services tab.
- Locate the service monitor in the list and click its name (or click the View icon).
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Edit Action Profiles button.
- Add the appropriate Action Profile to the right list and click the Save button.
Related Documentation: For a more in depth understanding please review the documentation Alerts and Actions