Creating an action

IBM® Sterling Control Center Monitor comes with a number of predefined actions you can use. You can also create your own new actions.

1. From the IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor Web Console select Manage > Rules & Actions > Actions to display the Actions listing.
2. Click the Create button to display the Create a new action page.
3. Type a name and description for the action.
4. Under What actions do you want to perform?, choose one or more activities for this action.
   • Select the Generate Alert checkbox and select the Alert Severity
   • Select the Send email checkbox to create an email to send whenever the action occurs,define the To, From, Subject, and Message fields. Click To: to specify one or more email lists. (You can create, duplicate, or modify email lists in the Email List window that displays.) Sort the To: list of email addresses in ascending or descending alphabetical order by toggling Sort. If you want, you can include variables in the Subject line or Message text area.
5. To create SNMP traps, turn on the Generate SNMP Trap option.
6. To use operating system commands to define the action, type the commands or the fully-qualified name of a file that contains the commands in the OS Command field.
7. To send a command to the Sterling Connect:Direct® server for execution, type information in the Server Command .
8. Identify the restricted roles that have permission to modify the action.

   Unrestricted roles automatically have permission to modify an action.

9. Specify whether the action will be visible to all users or only the restricted users in the roles you selected. If you make the action visible to all users, you cannot restrict visibility to specific roles after it is created and referenced.
10. Click Save.