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Auditing Behavior Models

NerveCenter includes an auditing feature that looks for:

• Alarm transitions for which there are no corresponding triggers
• Triggers that are fired by a poll or a mask and are not used in alarms
• Alarms with states that are unreachable

You should audit your database periodically to ensure that you don't have extraneous objects in your database and that alarms you're currently using don't have unreachable states or unusable transitions.

 
  To perform an audit:

1. Choose Audit from the client's Admin menu.

   The Audit window appears.

   Audit Window

   

2. Check one or more of the checkboxes above the text area.

   Checking the first checkbox indicates that you want to see information about alarm transitions for which there are no corresponding triggers.

   Checking the second checkbox indicates that you want to see information about polls and masks that fire triggers that are not used by any currently defined alarm.

   Checking the third checkbox indicates that you want to see information about alarms that contain states that are unreachable.

3. Select the Run Audit button.

   The results of the audit are written to the text area in the Audit window and to the file audit.txt in the Log (Windows NT) or userfiles/logs (UNIX) directory.

   The other buttons in the Audit window have the following functions:

   • Clear clears the contents of the text area in the Audit window.
   • Clear Audit File clears the contents of the file audit.txt.
   • View Audit File displays the contents of the file audit.txt in the text area of the Audit window.