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Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide
4 Under Actions for this passive monitor, select the action that you would like to
remove, then click Remove. A dialog appears and asks you if you are sure you want to
remove the action.
5 Click OK to remove the action.
Creating a Blackout Period
You can create a Blackout Period to have WhatsUp Gold suspend specific actions during a
scheduled period of time. Use this feature to keep from sending a notification to someone
who is on vacation, or to keep from sounding a Web Alarm when there is no one near-by to
hear the alert.
Note: Polling dependencies & blackouts only apply to the collection of device active
monitors.
To create a Blackout period:
1 On the device from which you want to create a Blackout Period, right-click, then select
Properties. The Device Properties dialog appears.
2 Click Actions. The Device Properties - Actions dialog appears.
3 Select the action for which you want to create the Blackout Period, then click Edit. The
monitor properties dialog appears.
4 Click Edit. The Action Builder appears.
5 Click Blackout Period. The Weekly Blackout Schedule dialog appears.
6 Set the times for which you want the blackout to occur.
Note: The schedule that you set is repeated weekly.
7 Click OK.
Action Policies
Action policies allow you to group or sequence multiple actions together for use on any
device or monitor.
If you make changes to actions in a policy, the changes are applied to all of the devices and
monitors that use that particular policy.
For more information, see:
Adding and editing Action Policies (on page 300)
Configuring an implicit Action Policy (on page 301)
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