Sniffer® Portable Professional User's Guide - NetScout

Chapter 12
Setting Alarm Notification
264 Sniffer Portable Professional
Each severity level that can be assigned to an alarm (Critical/Diag,
Major, Minor, Warning, and Informational) can be associated with up to
four alarm notification actions. These notification actions can be enabled
for specified time periods within a day, and on specified days of the
week. When an alarm is triggered, Sniffer Portable Professional can:
Send email
Invoke a script to open an application or send an alarm notification
as an SNMP trap to an SNMP console
To set up a notification action:
1 Select Options from the Tools menu.
2 Select the Alarm tab.
3 Click Define Actions to open the Define Actions dialog box (Figure
12-5).
4 Click Add and select the radio button for the type of alarm
response you want. A wizard will guide you through the setup
procedure.
NOTE: Expert alarms must have their Alarm Logged options set to
Yes in the Tools > Expert Options > Alarms tab for notification
to take effect. Refer to Logging and Severities for Expert Alarms on
page 262.