Defining Timed Alarms

A timed alarm is a special-purpose threshold that enables you to track and respond to the absence of an event, rather than the occurrence of an event. For example, if your organization monitors for heartbeat events from a critical network resource, you can use a timed alarm to perform a user-defined action if a heartbeat event is not detected within the interval specified in the Time until Alarm Triggers field.

Each time the specified event is detected within the user-defined interval, the timer resets and the threshold monitoring begins again.

Timed alarm actions can be triggered by using event data substitution  to reference the alarm ID  text and by filtering on the event subtype defined in the Alarm Event Subtype  field.

%ProductName% provides the following timed-alarm event actions for you to customize and use:

Customize Action: Define/Reset a Timed Alarm to Send an Event
Use this action to create and send a new event in response to the triggering of the timed alarm.
Customize Action: Define/Reset a Timed Alarm to Execute a Server Command
Use this action to specify a program or script that is executed on the %ProductServerName% in response to the triggering of the timed alarm.