User's Manual

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7signal Sapphire Carat Carat User Guide Release 3.1
2. Select “Bind to alarm limit group”
3. From the pull-down menu, select the alarm group you want to use for this access point
Or
1. Open Service Alarm Binder Dialog by right clicking Service Area Node and selecting
“Bind Alarms”
2. Select Alarm Limit Group from the Combo Box
3. Select Access Points for the binding
4. Save
15.3 Alarm Messages
To view the alarms issued, select “View | Alarms” from the top menu bar. You can indicate
whether you want to see all alarms or only alarms that are currently active. You can also select
how the alarms are listed.
You can acknowledge an alarm by clicking the symbol under “Ack time”. The symbol will be
replaced by the current time of the Carat server, and the alarm is acknowledged. The alarms
are turned off when the cause of the alarm is no longer present.
15.4 Alarm Forwarding
There are two methods that alarms may be brought to attention of external systems: email
forwarding and SNMP.
15.4.1 Email Forwarding
Alarms are sent as plain-text emails with standard formatting easy to be parsed with typical
text-processing tools.
NOTE: Email may be used only for relaying the alarms to the other messaging
system that convert emails to f ex SMS and messenger formats. 7signal products
do not directly provide such integration.
Email forwarding requires an SMTP server to be defined. There may be numerous recipients
that shall receive the alarms.