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and allows for the detection of threshold crossings that span the sampling boundary. If you track the current values of a given delta-valued alarm and add them together, therefore, the result is twice the actual value. (This result is not an error in the software.)

Alarm Manager example

Note: The example alarm described in the following procedure generates at least one alarm every five minutes. The example is intended only to demonstrate how alarms fire; it is not a useful alarm. Because of the high frequency, you may want to delete this alarm and replace it with a practical setting.

To create an alarm to receive statistics and history using default values:

1Do one of the following:

•From the Device Manager main menu, choose RMON >Alarm Manager.

•On the toolbar, click the Alarm Manager button.

The Alarm Manager dialog box opens (Figure 67).

Figure 67 Alarm Manager dialog box

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