Designing and Managing Behavior Models - Performing Actions Conditionally
(Action Router) - Creating an Action Router Rule -
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Creating an Action Router Rule

There are two components to an Action Router rule: a condition and a list of actions. For example, suppose you need to develop a rule that will cause NerveCenter to send you e-mail if a device goes down. The rule's condition might be:

This means that you want to know if the Action Router is notified of a transition that occurred as a result of a deviceDown trigger.

The rule's action might be:

This means that if the condition is met, NerveCenter should send SMTP mail to the address shown.

The next two subsections explain how to create such rule conditions and rule actions:

• Defining a Rule Condition
• Defining a Rule Action

Note that you must create both a condition and one or more actions to complete an Action Router rule.