Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide - Ipswitch Documentation Server

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide
Creating action policies
To create an action policy:
1 From the WhatsUp Gold console, select Configure > Action Policies. The Action
Policies dialog appears.
- or -
From the web interface, click the Admin tab, then click Action Policy Library.
2 Click New. The New Action Policy dialog appears.
3 Enter a name for the action policy. This name is used to help you identify this action
policy in WhatsUp Gold.
4 Click Add. The Action Builder wizard appears.
5 Follow the on-screen instructions in the Action Builder wizard to create or select actions
for the policy. At the end of the wizard, click Finish to close the Action Builder wizard
and add the action to the action policy.
6 To add additional actions to the action policy, click Add again.
7 After you have added all of the actions to the action policy, verify that they are listed in
the correct order. If they are not, you can select actions and use the Up and Down
buttons to change the actions' order in the list.
8 Click OK. The New Action Policy dialog closes.
To associate an action policy with a device role:
1 After creating the action policy, on the WhatsUp Gold console select File > Discover
Devices. The Discovery console appears.
2 From the Discovery console menu, select Advanced > Device role settings. The Device
Role Settings dialog appears.
3 Select the device role that you want to use in the action policy, then click Configure.
The Role Settings Editor appears.
4 Select the Action Policy tab.
5 Select the action policy you wnt to include, then click OK. The Role Settings Editor
dialog closes.
For more information about action policies, see About Action Policies (on page 299) in the
help.
Configuring and running discovery
Discovering devices on your network is a three-stage process that includes:
Configuring discovery settings (on page 51)
Running discovery (on page 54)
Adding discovered devices to WhatsUp Gold (on page 57)
To begin discovering devices on your network:
From the WhatsUp Gold web interface, click Devices > Discovery Console. The
Discovery Console appears.
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