User Manual

Manage Alarm Actions option (Alarm Configuration menu)
This option allows you to create, modify, delete, and test the alarm actions that can be
included in the notification policies the StruxureWare Central server uses to generate alarm
notifications.
Alarm notifications can alert you, or other members of your organization, when the following
events occur:
• A threshold violation at a sensor the StruxureWare Central server monitors.
• An alarm at a monitored SNMP or Modbus device.
You can create multiple versions of an alarm action, each with unique settings, for example,
assigning different severities that apply to the alarm action.
Once alarm actions have been created, you must add at least one action, and one alarm
or threshold, to at least one notification policy to generate alarm notifications.
Note: Device alarms for every device the StruxureWare Central server monitors are added
to the Default notification policy at discovery. You must manually add alarm actions to this
policy before the StruxureWare Central server can use it to generate alarm notifications.
Two displays, "Add Alarm Action" and "Edit Alarm Action" in the Notification Policies view,
also provide access to the Manage Alarm Actions display.
"Manage Alarm Actions" display
Use this display to create, modify, delete and test alarm actions that can be included in
policies used by the StruxureWare Central server to generate alarm notifications.
Type Description
List
Displays the alarm actions currently configured
on the StruxureWare Central server.
You can click any column head ( Action or
Action Type ) to sort the list.
Create
Click to create a new alarm action.
Edit
Click to edit the selected alarm action.
Delete
Click to delete the selected alarm action from
the StruxureWare Central server.
Test
Click to test the selected alarm action.
Manage Alarm Actions
You use the "Alarm Action" wizard to create alarm actions that can be included in the
notification policies used by the StruxureWare Central server for alarm notifications.
Creating an alarm action
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