User`s guide

31NetBotz Appliance User’s Guide
Creating an alert profile
To create a new alert profile or modify an existing alert profile:
1. Double-click the Alert Profile icon.
2. Click Add.... Select an alert action from the Add Alert Actions window and click OK.
3. Type an Alert Action Name and configure the Severities, Alert Action Parameters, and
Advanced Scheduling. Click OK.
4. If you are modifying an existing alert profile, select the alert profile from the Profile table and
click Edit.... When you finish making your changes, click OK.
Creating an alert sequence
To create a new alert sequence or modify an existing alert sequence:
1. Double-click the Alert Profile icon.
2. Select the alert profile to which you would like to add a new alert sequence and click Edit.
3. Click Add.... If you are modifying an existing alert sequence, select the alert sequence from the
Sequence table and click Edit....
4. Type a name for the alert sequence in the Label field.
5. In the Start field, type the number of minutes that must pass before an alert condition sends a
notification. If you want notifications to begin immediately, specify a Start Time of 0 seconds.
6. (Optional) Check Automatically add new alert actions to this schedule if you want new alert
actions created after this alert schedule is defined to be automatically added to this schedule.
7. Check Repeat Until Return to Normal if you want the alert actions for this alert sequence to be
repeated automatically until the alert condition no longer exists. If you want the actions to be
repeated only a specific number of times, leave this check box unchecked and use the Repeat
field to specify how many times to repeat the actions.
8. In the Interval field, type the number of minutes that will pass between repeated notifications.
9. Specify Capture Settings for graphs, pictures, and maps. Capture settings override the
Maximum Camera Pictures and Include a Graph with the Alert settings for alert actions
associated with this alert sequence.
Note: Images are only captured and included in an alert notification if you checked at
least one Cameras to Trigger when defining a threshold.
10.Click Add Actions..., and select one or more alert actions from the Add Action window. Click
OK.
11. Click OK to save the alert sequence to your alert profile.