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Alarm Settings

Analog and Temperature input models support an Alarm mechanism in which you can specify up to five severity levels of alarm triggers and clear levels; the alarm triggers/clear levels can activate in either increasing or decreasing severity levels.

Each time an alarm is triggered or cleared, you can specify any combination of the following to be initiated:

zAn SNMP trap

zAn email message

zA message to syslog

Basic Analog Alarm Settings

The basic Analog Alarm Settings window allows you to configure one severity alarm, whereas the advanced window allows you to configure up to five severity alarm levels.

Configure the following parameters:

Trigger alarm when Specify the value that will trigger an alarm, the measurement is based on the

input value is Type and Range that you specify. This value must not fall within the scope of the value used to clear an alarm.

Clear alarm when Specify that value that will clear an alarm, the measurement is based on the

input value is Type and Range that you specify. This value must not fall within the scope of the value used to trigger an alarm.

Send Email Alert When enabled, sends an email alert to an email account(s) set up in the System settings when an alarm is triggered or cleared. The email alert data includes the severity level and the value that caused the alarm to trigger or clear. The Email Alert is associated with Level Critical.

Default: Disabled

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