In the 'network path to external program' section, we'll need to configure the full command to pass to PageGate.An infamous cyberattack in late 2020 made SolarWinds a household name in the tech industry after it was discovered to be at the center of a supply-chain attack on its Orion network management tool. If PageGate is NOT installed on the Solarwinds server, you'll need to select the 'Execute an external program' Trigger action, then click 'Configure Action'. In the 'Message to send' section, enter the message you wish to deliver, including any Solarwinds variables. Click and drag the recipients that need to be messaged in to the 'Send Page To' column, then click OK.Įnter a sender's name value in the From field. Give the action a name, something simple like PageGate SMS alert.Ĭlick on the elipses button (.) next to Page Recipients and you should notice that every recipient and group you've configured in PageGate is available to select. If PageGate is installed on the Solarwinds server, select 'Dial Page or SMS service' and click 'Configure Action'. So, once you can get to the Trigger Actions, click 'Add Action' Regardless of which you do, the important part is the Trigger Actions. In the list of alerts, you can either add a new alert or edit an existing alert. The first step is to open the Advanced Alert Manager.
Now that we've handled the PageGate side of things, here's how to configure your alerts in Solarwinds. Once 'updating services' goes away, open the PageGate Monitor and you should see that Server, Scheduler, GetAscii and Connectors are green, indicating that they're running. If you're prompted for credentials, leave them blank and click Apply again. Once there, in 'Run on this Server', check GetAscii and click Apply. Next, we'll want to go to Program - Settings. Set the 'Polling Directory' to the basic data processing folder you created (c:\PageGateData\Solarwinds\ by default).Ĭheck Enabled, click Apply and tell it Yes, you do want this enabled. Now that we have the basic processing directory created, run the PageGate Admin. This can be any folder local to the PageGate server but to keep things simple, we recommend creating c:\PageGateData\Solarwinds\ As noted above, we do recommend installing PageGate on the Solarwinds server itself so you can use the "Dial Page or SMS service" trigger action.Īfter the program is installed, we'll first need to create a basic data processing folder.
The first step is to install the PageGate server. So, now that we've gone over the basics, here's how to set it up in practice. Due to this, we recommend installing PageGate on the Solarwinds server - you can save yourself a lot of time and effort in your alert configuration. So, if you don't have PageGate installed on the Solarwinds server, it's still entirely possible to integrate the two programs, it just takes a little more effort as you have to manually construct what's automatically provided with the "Dial Page or SMS Service" trigger action. The "execute an external program" trigger action is a method of manually configuring the command lines that are automatically configured by the "Dial Page or SMS Service" trigger action.
To use this trigger action, you must install PageGate on the Solarwinds server as, again, this trigger action references the local windows registry on the Solarwinds server. The "Dial Page or SMS service" trigger action tells the Network Performance Monitor to look in the local Windows registry of the Solarwinds server for some very, very specific entries from PageGate's GetAscii module. It's also important to note that there are two trigger actions in the Solarwinds Orion Platform that you can use: GetAscii also provides a command line executable for other applications to pass messaging parameters to.
The GetAscii module allows you to monitor a directory or series of directories, whether on the local hard drives or accessible by UNC path, for text file output. Solarwinds integrates with PageGate by submitting information to PageGate's GetAscii API. To notify people who need to know about the emergentĪlerts are configured within the Alert Manager section of Solarwinds, which can be accessed by running the 'Advanced Alert Manager' in the start menu from the Solarwinds program group. People for different events, or any combination Value for a monitored Interface, Volume or Node.Īlerts may be set to notify different people onĭifferent days, different times of the day, different Of an event or by the crossing of a threshold Send Text and SMS Messages from SolarWinds Orion PlatformĮvents, and may be triggered by the simple occurrence How to Integrate SolarWinds Orion with PageGate Steps to Use SolarWinds Orion Platform Steps to integrate with delivery services How to Integrate SolarWinds Orion Platform with PageGate