Notifications are messages that tell you when something important happens—like a server going down, a service becoming slow, or a threshold being exceeded. In network monitoring, timely notifications reduce downtime because you can react immediately instead of discovering issues later. Notifications can be delivered in different ways (email, SMS, push, chat apps, pop-ups), depending on what works best for your team and how urgent the event is.
Notifications in IPNetwork Monitor. IPNetwork Monitor uses alerts and alerting rules to deliver notifications when monitor status changes or events occur. Alerts are centrally managed and reusable: a single named alert can include one or multiple basic operations (for example Send email, Pop-up window, Send SMS, Send Push notification, Send HTTP(S) request, Execute program, Execute script over SSH, or Set SNMP value) and can also include schedules so notifications only run during specific time windows. Alerting rules then connect those alerts to specific monitor state changes, and monitors typically inherit the alerting rule from their parent host for easier setup. Because alerts are shared, updating a named alert (like adding a new email recipient) automatically updates every rule and monitor that uses it, and you can verify delivery using the alert testing tools in the IPNetwork Monitor client.
