Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide - Ipswitch Documentation Server

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide
9 After selecting the desired options for each tab and entering the appropriate threshold
variables and values, specify your choices for the Notification and Polling sections of the
dialog.
Notification. Select the notification policy to apply to this threshold. This policy
begins sending notifications when an item is outside the configured threshold limits.
If you do not see an appropriate threshold policy, or if the list is empty, click browse
(...) to open the Notification Policy dialog and configure a new policy.
Note: Notification policies are optional for most thresholds. If you do not select a notification
policy, no notifications are generated for the threshold, but a dashboard report listing the
out of threshold items still appears on the Alerts Home page.
Threshold check. Enter a value for the polling interval, or the interval at which the
Alert Center checks the WhatsUp Gold database to see if there are items out of the
threshold's parameters. The default polling interval is 5 minutes.
Select Automatically resolve items no longer out of threshold to have Alert Center
automatically resolve items when they go back inside the parameters of the
threshold.
Note: Configure the threshold check interval for a longer time than the sampling interval for
thresholds relating to trends, such as percent utilization. Configure it for a time the same as
(or similar to) the sampling interval when configuring a threshold for a health check.
Avoid setting the threshold check interval to a very short time as this can degrade system
performance. In general, setting the threshold check interval to less than five minutes is
inadvisable.
10 Click OK to save the threshold settings.
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