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Chapter 9
9
Alarms
Surveyor’s alarms facility enables you to create alarms to automatically monitor
network resources. Access to Surveyor’s alarms facility is through the
Resource
Browser docking window located in Surveyor’s main window. The Resource
Browser window features a hierarchical directory comprising all hardware devices
and hosts discovered.
Right-click on a resource to bring up its alarms. A unique set of alarms exist for
each analyzer device on the network.
Alarms are created using an Alarm Editor. The Alarm Editor window contains tabs
that group all possible alarms. Each alarm within the alarm table contains default
threshold values, notification settings, a sampling interval value and an
Enable/
Disable click box.
Starting a resource automatically activates the alarms associated with that resource.
You must have Monitor mode set for a resource to have alarms trigger and have
alarm actions occur.
Actions resulting from alarms are varied and flexible because they are assigned to
each individual alarm. Whenever an alarm threshold is exceeded, an audible beep
sounds on the host and an alarm message appears in the
Message window.
Individual alarms can also be configured to log alarms to a log file, contact
individuals by e-mail, dial pager numbers, restart the resource, auto save data, stop
the resource and save data, execute a program, or send an SNMP trap message to a
management station.
Note
Alarms only apply to Surveyor 4.1 or later versions. You cannot create
alarms if the remote software (
THGs image file or Surveyor) is less than
version 4.1.
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