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Associating an Action with a Transition

A transition may or may not have alarm actions associated with it. If it has one or more actions associated with it, these actions are performed each time the transition occurs.

You can add actions to an existing transition, or adding the actions can be part of the initial definition of the transition.

 
  To add an action to a transition:

1. If you're in the process of creating a new transition, the Transition Definition dialog should already be open. If you want to add an action to an existing transition, double -click the transition's icon. This causes the Transition Definition dialog to be displayed.

   Transition Definition Dialog

   

2. Select the New Action button.

   NerveCenter displays a pop-up menu that lists all the actions supported on your platform. The complete list of actions is:

   • Action Router
   • Alarm Counter
   • Beep
   • Clear Trigger
   • Command
   • Delete Node
   • EventLog
   • Fire Trigger
   • Inform
   • Inform OpC
   • Inform Platform
   • Log to Database
   • Log to File
   • Microsoft Mail
   • Notes
   • Paging
   • Perl Subroutine
   • Send Trap
   • Set Attribute
   • SMTP Mail
   • SNMP Set
3. Select an action from the pop-up menu.

   If you select the Action Router, Delete Node, or Notes action, the action is added immediately to the Actions list in the Transition Definition window. However, because most actions require you to supply parameters, NerveCenter generally displays an action dialog at this point. The dialog varies from action to action.

4. Fill in the fields in the action dialog.

   This step is very dependent on the action you've selected. For details on how to complete this step, see the appropriate section in Alarm Actions.

5. Repeat step 2 through step 4 for any additional actions you want to add to the transition.
6. Select the OK button in the Transition Definition window.