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Decisions to make before adding an alarm

Before you use the Add Alarm wizard to add a new alarm, you need to gather the information required to complete the wizard.

Group
Which group will the alarm be associated with?
Event or severity
What do you want to trigger the alarm?
  • Decide if a specific event should trigger the alarm and, if so, which event.
  • Decide if an event in an event class should trigger the alarm and, if so, which event class. And optionally, decide which severity type within the event class.
  • Decide if any event of a specified severity type should trigger the alarm and, if so, which severity type.
Recipients
Who or what needs to receive the event notification?
You can specify one or more of the following recipients:
  • E-mails: Provide the administrator user names or non-administrator e-mail addresses.
  • Pagers: Provide the administrator user names or non-administrator pager e-mail addresses.
  • SNMP listener traps: Provide the host and port number of each SNMP trap. Optionally, provide the SNMP community name.
  • Script: Provide the name of a script that is executed when an alarm occurs and the user name that runs the script.
Active range
When should the event notification be active for the alarm?
Repeat notification
Do you want the event notification repeated until the event is acknowledged?

If so, how often do you want the notification to be repeated?