Built-in Action Types
- Last Updated: April 15, 2026
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- WhatsUp Gold
- Version 2026
When you apply active monitors, you typically associate an action and a device state with changes observed by the monitor. There are three main categories of built-in action types available through the Actions Library. Actions can be triggered or scheduled.
Note: Certain actions (CM Actions, for example) can be invoked on demand
(Run Now).
Built-in action types include:
- Notifications. Send messages to stakeholders and responsible individuals according to site policy.
- Remote execution. Create scripts, execute remote programs, and apply configuration changes.
- Log. Include state change observed by WhatsUp Gold in platform logs.
Notifications
- Beeper action. Activate a beeper with this type of action.
- Email action. Send an Email to a specific address.
- Pager action. Send a message to a pager.
- Post To MS Teams action. Generate a custom notification message, or adaptive card, in MS Teams.
- Post To Slack action. Post a message to a specific Slack channel or user.
- Web Alarm action. Activate a Web Alarm in the WhatsUp Gold Web Interface
- Text to Speech action. Plays a voice message on your computer.
- SMS action. Send a text message to a specific target.
- SMS Direct action. Send a text message to a wireless phone or other wireless device.
- Sound action. Play a specific sound.
Remote/Local Script or Execution
- Service Restart action. Start or stop a Windows service.
- Active Script action. Write code to perform a customized action.
- Configuration Management action. Perform script or task from CM Task (includes Task Scripts) or CM Script Libraries.
- OpsGenie Alert Management action. Generate a request to either open or close an OpsGenie alert using a WhatsUp Gold-specific API key.
- PowerShell action. Develop custom actions through direct access to scriptable component libraries, including the .NET Framework.
- SSH action. Connect to remote devices via SSH to execute commands or scripts.
- Program action. Execute an external application.
- SNMP Set action. Use SNMP to increase a counter, set a flag, or change the attribute value of a managed object.
- Post To IFTTT action. Trigger an action using one of several available applications supported by the IFTTT service.
- Create ServiceNow Incident action. Generate a ServiceNow ticket.
- VMware action. Use the VMware API to perform an action on a virtual machine.
Log
- Log to Text File action. Write a message to a text file.
- Windows Event Log action. Write an event in the Windows Event Log.
- Syslog action. Write a message to a log in the Syslog system.