How To Set Up Element Alarms

Alarms enable you to have the Control Center contact a group or several groups when a threshold is exceeded on a monitor. Before you can create a new alarm, you must define Contact Methods for the account user groups. See Setting Up Contact Methods in Chapter 8 Managing Accounts.

Steps

1. Click Monitor on the Navigation bar and select the desired farm.

   The Monitor screen appears.

2. Right-click the server element and choose Monitor.

   The Monitor Server screen appears.

3. From the Monitor Server screen, click the Create New Alarm button.

   The Create New Alarm dialog box appears.

4. Type a name for the alarm.

5. Click OK to save the alarm name.

   The Create Element Alarm dialog box appears.

   Figure 4–8 Create Element Alarm

   
   

6. Set up the newly created element alarm as shown in Figure 4–8.

7. Select a contact method from the Contact Methods list.

   This method is used when an alarm condition occurs. See Setting Up Contact Methods.

8. Select the desired alarm from the Apply Rule When drop-down list.

   See How To Set Up Monitors for procedural information about defining rule conditions.

9. Select either Error or Warning from the drop-down list to the right of the Apply Rule When drop-down list.

10. Click the + button to add an alarm condition, if appropriate.

11. Click the Apply button to save your changes.

12. If you configured multiple items, click Save Changes to save all Monitor changes.

13. Click the Commit Changes button to initiate a farm request for creation of the alarm.

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    Caution –

    Changes cannot take effect until after you click the Commit Changes button on the main Monitor screen.

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