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Chapter 9

Alarms

Surveyor’s alarms facility enables you to create alarms to automatically monitor network resources. Access to Surveyor’s alarms facility is through the Resource Browser docking window located in Surveyor’s main window. The Resource Browser window features a hierarchical directory comprising all hardware devices and hosts discovered.

Right-click on a resource to bring up its alarms. A unique set of alarms exist for each analyzer device on the network.

Alarms are created using an Alarm Editor. The Alarm Editor window contains tabs that group all possible alarms. Each alarm within the alarm table contains default threshold values, notification settings, a sampling interval value and an Enable/ Disable click box.

Starting a resource automatically activates the alarms associated with that resource. You must have Monitor mode set for a resource to have alarms trigger and have alarm actions occur.

Actions resulting from alarms are varied and flexible because they are assigned to each individual alarm. Whenever an alarm threshold is exceeded, an audible beep sounds on the host and an alarm message appears in the Message window.

Individual alarms can also be configured to log alarms to a log file, contact individuals by e-mail, dial pager numbers, restart the resource, auto save data, stop the resource and save data, execute a program, or send an SNMP trap message to a management station.

!Note

Alarms only apply to Surveyor 4.1 or later versions. You cannot create alarms if the remote software (THGs image file or Surveyor) is less than version 4.1.

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