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Remote Monitoring Specification Alarm Thresholds
From the Port menu, choose the port on the Ethernet card.
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Step 6 From the Variable menu, choose the variable that you want to set.
Threshold Variables available in this field.
Step 7 From Alarm Type menu, indicate whether the event will be triggered by the rising threshold, falling
threshold, or both the rising and falling thresholds.
From the Sample Type pull-down menu, choose either Relative or Absolute. Relative restricts the
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threshold to use the number of occurrences in the user-set sample period. Absolute sets the threshold to
use the total number of occurrences, regardless of any time period.
Step 9 Type in an appropriate number of seconds for the Sample Period.
Type in the appropriate number of occurrences for the Rising Threshold.
Step 10
Note
Type in the appropriate number of occurrences for the Falling Threshold. In most cases a falling
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threshold is set lower than the rising threshold.
A falling threshold is the counterpart to a rising threshold. When the number of occurrences is above the
rising threshold and then drops below a falling threshold, it resets the rising threshold. For example,
when the network problem that caused 1001 collisions in 15 minutes subsides and creates only 799
collisions in 15 minutes, occurrences fall below a falling threshold of 800 collisions. This resets the
rising threshold so that if network collisions again spike over a 1000 per 15 minute period, an event again
triggers when the rising threshold is crossed. An event is triggered only the first time a rising threshold
is exceeded. (Otherwise a single network problem might cause a rising threshold to be exceeded multiple
times and cause a large number of events.)
Step 12 Click OK to complete the procedure.
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To raise a rising type of alarm, the measured value must move from below the falling threshold
to above the rising threshold. For example, if a network is running below a falling threshold of
400 collisions every 15 seconds and a problem causes 1001 collisions in 15 seconds, these
occurrences raise an alarm.
Chapter 9 Ethernet Operation
Table 9-9 lists and defines the Ethernet
June 2002