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Assigning an Alert to a Module

Go the agent editing, where the module is defined and click on the alert tab:

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Now add the module (Host Alive), the template (Critical Condition) and the action (Mail to admin). Click Add alert.

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Once added, you may see in the agent view whether it is running or not, by taking a look at is state color:

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When the host goes offline the alert will fire:

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An email should be received, something similar to this one:guiarapida_mail.png

Pandora FMS alerts are extremely flexible and, therefore sometimes complex to use. There is a specific chapter for those in the documentation: Alerts in Pandora FMS.