User`s guide

7-2
Alarm Configuration
7.1. The Over Temperature Alarms
The Over Temperature Alarms can inform you when the temperature level inside
your equipment rack reaches or exceeds user specified trigger levels. There are two
separate Over Temperature Alarms; the Initial Threshold alarm and the Critical Threshold
Alarm.
Typically, the Initial Threshold alarm is used to provide notification when the temperature
within your equipment rack reaches a point where you might want to investigate
it, whereas the Critical Threshold alarm is used to provide notification when the
temperature approaches a level that may harm equipment or inhibit performance. The
trigger for the Initial Threshold alarm is generally set lower than the Critical Threshold
alarm.
Notes:
• InorderfortheTSM/RSMtoprovidealarmnotificationviaEmail,
communicationparametersmustfirstbedefinedasdescribedin
Section5.9.11.
• InorderfortheTSM/RSMtoprovidealarmnotificationviaSyslogMessage,
SyslogparametersmustfirstbedefinedandSyslogMessagesmustbe
enabledasdescribedinSection5.9.2.
• InorderfortheTSM/RSMtoprovidealarmnotificationviaSNMPTrap,SNMP
parametersmustfirstbedefined,andSNMPTrapsmustbeenabledas
describedinSection5.9.7.
To configure the Over Temperature Alarms, access the TSM/RSM command mode
using a password that permits Administrator Level commands, and then use the Alarm
Configuration menu to select the desired alarm feature.
Note that both the Initial Threshold menus and Critical Threshold menus offer essentially
the same set of parameters, but parameters defined for each alarm are separate and
unique. Therefore, parameters defined for the Critical Threshold Alarm will not be
applied to the Initial Threshold Alarm and vice versa. Both the Over Temperature (Initial
Threshold) alarm and the Over Temperature (Critical Threshold) alarm offer the following
parameters:
• TriggerEnable: Enables/Disables the trigger for this alarm. When Disabled, this
alarm will be suppressed. (Default = On.)
Notes:
• Tocancelanalarmwithoutcorrectingtheconditionthatcausedthealarm,
simplytoggletheTriggerEnableparameterOffandthenbackOnagain.
• TheTriggerEnable,NotifyonClear,EmailMessageandAddress1,2and3
Parametersallinclude"CopytoAllTriggers"optionsthatallowyoutoenable/
disablethecorrespondingparameterforallTSM/RSMalarms.Forexample,
iftheLostCommunicationAlarm'sTriggerEnableparameterissetto"On
(CopytoAllTriggers),thenallotherTSM/RSMalarmswillalsobeenabled.