New/Properties: Watch Item : Alarm

Description

The "Alarm Tab" shows the settings of which an alarm will either be triggered or reset.

An alarm is triggered when a watch item fails. See Failure Descriptions for more for more on why watch items fail.

Active - Trigger alarm action when a run fails. By default, this option is checked/active. *WARNING* Un-checking this option will prevent an alarm ever from being triggered.
Action - Opens the "Set Alarm Actions" dialog box. There are four types of actions that can be performed:
Use Trigger Escalation Rules - (Trial and Enterprise only) Escalation Rules offer a deeper level of configuration for triggering alarm actions. Check this option to use trigger escalation rules and to enable the "Configure Rules" button.
Configure Rules - Click this button to open the "[ConfigureEscalationRules.html Configure Escalation Rules]" dialog.

By default, this field is set to 1.
You may want set the trigger to 2 or more consecutive failures in the event of a false alarm.
Consider this scenario. You set up a watch to ping your site every minute. You set the alarm trigger at 5 consecutive failures. That would mean that you only want to be notified if your site is actually down for a full five minutes.

By default, this option is checked/active.
To manually reset an alarm, in the main window, under the menu "Edit", click on the menu option "Reset Alarm".
It may be useful to uncheck this option if you only want an alarm to be reset with total human intervention.

By default, this field is set to 1.
You may want set the trigger to 2 or more consecutive failures in the event of a false reset of an alarm.
Consider this scenario. You set up a watch to ping your site every minute. You set the alarm trigger at 5 consecutive successful responses. That would mean that you only want the alarm to be reset when the site is responding for a full five minutes.