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How to Use Alarms

In the last chapter, you learned how to create and enable polls to monitor certain conditions on your network. However, a poll will only work if it can cause an alarm to transition. Alarms are at the heart of NerveCenter's behavior models.

This chapter explains:

• What an alarm is and how it fits in a behavior model
• How to create a new alarm
• How to design a state diagram
• How to enable an alarm
• How to modify an alarm

This chapter includes the following sections:

Sections Included in this Chapter

Section	Description
What is an Alarm?	Explains that an alarm is a NerveCenter object that correlates one or more detected network events and performs certain actions in response to those events.
How to Create an Alarm	Steps you through the process of creating, enabling, and modifying a new alarm.
Review and Summary	Gives you the opportunity to review what you learned.

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