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Alert Events - Event Notfications/Trigger Events

Many of the events share a notification mechanism, or a trigger that fires the alert. Here is a list of the triggers available for you to use in your alerts. Note that any alert can have multiple events of the same type. What this means is you can set up a single alert to do something at any one, or all, of these times.

Each time alert conditions are met (repeating)
The event will happen every time conditions are met. This means the event will happen over and over again on each sample that causes the alert to fire. In previous versions, this was the only supported notification type.

When alert conditions start (enters alert state)
The first time alert conditions occur, the event will happen. As long as the conditions continue, though, the event won't be repeated. This is a popular notification because you find out about new conditions when they happen, but also don't have to be bothered again.

When alert conditions end (leaves alert state)
This happens when network conditions improve so that the alert is no longer firing. As soon as the conditions move from bad to good (based on your settings), then this event will happen. Practial use of this trigger is to have PingPlotter email you each time conditions go bad (see above), when they improve again (or leaves the alert state), but to not to tell you anything in between.

Each time alert conditions are *not* met
This is the exact opposite of the first notification type above. As long as things are good on the network, this event will fire each time a sample is collected.