Users Guide

Alarms | Alarms, Events, and Automation
OMNM 6.5.3 User Guide 293
Setting Audible Alerts
Audible Alerts produce a sound when a new alarm arrives in the Alarms summary (not expanded)
portlet. The sound occurs when the OpenManage Network Manager (OMNM) auto-refresh
controller polls for state changes. If you enable Audible Alerts and the Alarms summary view
receives
new alarms, the specified sound occurs.
Cleared alarms do not trigger an audible alert.
Only new alarms received trigger an audible alert
during auto-refresh. To cut down on audio clutter, only a single Audible Alert sounds no matter
how many alarms occur during an auto-refresh cycle.
Each browser supports sound differently because of licensing for various sound formats. Audible
alarm support exists for most browsers, so if issues occur with a particular browser the workaround
is either to upgrade or use Chrome.
Browsers support MP3 sounds the most, so this is the only format supported for Audible Alerts.
The Firefox browser only support OGG format natively and the Internet Explorer browser has
issues with most sounds. To support those browsers, the OMNM application plays MP3 sounds
through a Flash Object, so browsers need no special plugins.
This section provides instructions for:
•
Turning On Audible Alerts
• Adding Custom MP3 Sounds
Turning On Audible Alerts
Turn on Audible Alerts as follows.
1 Navigate to the page containing the Alarms portlet.
NOTE:
For audible alerts to work, the Alarms portlet must be on a page without the Hierarchical View portlet or
other context broadcasting that dynamically changes the Alarms portlet’s context. Auto refresh does not
run when in this environment so as a result the Audible Alerts are not exposed. (See Understanding
Hierarchical View on page 253.)
2
Click the Settings (wrench) tool.
The Setting window is displayed.
Extended Details:
Additional
Information
Equipment—The equipment (not subcomponent) that triggered the alarm.
DeviceIP—The IP address of the equipment where the alarm appeared.
Entity Description—A description of the triggering equipment.
Location—The location for the alarm. See Locations Portlet on page 221.
Region—The partition/region for the alarm.
Notes—A field where you can enter text.
Extended Details:
Historic
Information
This panel contains primarily read-only fields describing the alarm, including
whether it was Acknowledged, Ack by, Ack Time, Count and so on.
Extended Details:
Custom Fields
If you have created any Custom Fields for Alarms, this panel appears in the editor.
See Editing Custom Attributes on page 150 for instructions about these.
Information Type Provides