> ### Determining Fathom's action in response to an alert

> An action is an automatic, user-defined process that occurs in response to a rule violation on a monitored resource. You create actions and associate them with rules to ensure that certain activities occur when the rule triggers.

> As you do with schedules, you create and store actions in the Fathom Component Library. You can use actions to send e-mails, record the occurrence of an alert in a log file, send an SNMP trap, or perform a combination of these activities.

> All actions, with the exception of jobs, appear in the management console list frame, under the Actions category, when you select Library from the menu bar. Figure 4–6 shows the expanded Actions category.

> Figure 4–6: Expanded Actions category

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