Deleting An Alarm Definition; The Alarm Definition Window - Extreme Networks EPICenter Reference Manual

The EPICenter Alarm System

Deleting an Alarm Definition

To delete an alarm definition, select the alarm in the Alarm Definition List, and click the Delete
button at the top of the page.
After you verify that you want to delete the alarm, the definition is removed from the Alarm
Definition List and from EPICenter's database.
You must remove alarm definitions one at a time.

The Alarm Definition Window

There are three parts to an alarm definition: the Basic properties definition, the Scope definition, and the
Action definition. Each is represented on its own tab in the New Alarm Definition window or the
Modify Alarm Definition Window.
The New Alarm Definition window, as shown in
page alarm definition, with most of the fields blank. If you are modifying an existing Alarm definition,
the Modify Alarm Definition window is identical except that the settings for the selected alarm are
shown in the appropriate fields.
Figure 50: The New Alarm Definition window, Basic definition tab
Use the tabs at the top of the window to move between the three pages. When you are finished with
your alarm definition, click OK. A new alarm definition is added to the Alarm Definition List; the
existing alarm definition is updated for an alarm that has been modified.
See the EPICenter Concepts and Solutions Guide for a more extensive discussion about EPICenter
alarms, including examples of alarm definitions for common network events.
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Figure 50, initially displays the Basic tab of the three-
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