Corrective actions enable you to specify automated responses to metric alerts and events. Corrective actions ensure that routine responses to metric alerts are automatically executed, thereby saving you time and ensuring problems are dealt with before they noticeably impact end users.

Corrective actions share many features in common with the Job System. By default, a corrective action runs on the target on which the metric alert is triggered. Alternatively, you can specify a corrective action to contain multiple tasks, with each task running on a different target. You can also receive notifications for the success or failure of corrective actions.

Since corrective actions are associated with a target's metric thresholds, you can define corrective actions if you have been granted OPERATOR or greater privilege on the target. You can define separate corrective actions for both Warning and Critical thresholds. Corrective actions must run using the credentials of a specific user. For this reason, whenever a corrective action is created or modified, you must specify the credentials that the modified action runs with.

You define corrective actions for individual metrics for monitored targets. The following sections provide instructions on setting up corrective actions and viewing the details of a corrective action execution:

• Privilege and Access Requirements for Corrective Actions

• Creating Corrective Actions for Metrics

• Creating a Library Corrective Action

• Which Credentials Will Be Used When a Corrective Action Runs

• Setting Up Notifications for Corrective Actions

• Providing Agent-side Response Actions

• Viewing the Details of a Corrective Action Execution