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Contact Name
– is an alphanumeric field that allows you to name this contact closure. (Max length 32 chars)
Currently
– displays the current state of the contact – Open or Closed.
Alarm State
– is an On/Off toggle to enable or disable the alarm for this contact. Default is Off.
Alarm Actions
– sets the action(s) to be taken if Alarm State is set to ON, and the contact goes into the active state.
Alarm Actions are configured as
En
where
n
corresponds to the Email Address index number on the Email Alerts tab,
and
Tn
where
n
corresponds to the SNMP Manager index number on the SNMP Alerts tab. Multiple actions are listed
with no delimiters, so for example:
T1T2E2E3
would send a trap to SNMP Managers 1 and 2, and an Email message
to Email Addresses 2 and 3.
Active State
– is an Open/Closed toggle that sets whether an alert will be triggered when the contact closure circuit is
opened or closed. The default state is Closed.
Severity
– displays a drop down menu of four descriptive words – Info, Minor, Major, Critical – that allow you to assign
a severity rating to this alarm. This word will appear in an SNMP Trap alert, but does not appear in an Email alert.
Default setting for all is “Info”.
Threshold
– sets the number of seconds (0-255) the contact must remain in the Active State before the Alarm Action
is triggered. Default setting is 2 seconds.
Active Alias
– sets a special name used when the contact goes into its Active State and an alert is sent. (Max length
16 chars)
Inactive Alias
– sets a special name used when the contact returns to its Inactive State, and a Return to Normal
alerts is sent (if Send Return to Normal Alerts is enabled on the
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