Learning How to Create Behavior Models - How to Use Alarms -
Review and Summary What is an Alarm?

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:

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.

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.

Review and Summary	What is an Alarm?
	29 July 2003