New/Properties: Watch Item : Alarm
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- 1 Description
- 2 Fields and Buttons
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.
Fields and Buttons
Trigger
- 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.
Number of consecutive failed responses to trigger alarm
- 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.
Reset Alarm when this item responds again. (If this box is unchecked, the alarm will need to be reset manually)
- 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.
Number of consecutive successful responses to automatically reset alarm
- 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.
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