Enable or Disable Alarm Counters (from Workbench)

You can classify the alarms based on the resource at which they are generated. When you enable the alarm counters you can view the total alarms, unacknowledged alarms, unreset alarms generated at a resource.

About this task

You can also watch the following video for detailed steps on Enabling/Disabling Alarm Counters:
Note: If you are using a script to create a resource, you must set the resource.EnableAlarmCounters parameter to True to enable the alarm counters while creating a resource using a script.

The following are the steps to Enable or Disable alarm counters from Workbench.

Procedure

  1. In the Workbench, select Resources from the Security drop-down list.
    Note: You can also enable/disable alarm counters from Resource Definition window. Refer Option 1.2. Open an Existing Resource Definition Dialog Box.
    The list of resources appears.
  2. Right-click the resource(s) for which you want to enable the alarm counters.
  3. Select Enable Alarm Counter(s) to enable alarm counters for the resource(s) or select Disable Alarm Counter(s) to disable the alarm counters of the resource(s).

Results

If you enable alarm counters for a resource, the value of Enable Alarm Counters column is set to 1. Alarm counter points are generated for the resource which enable you to view the total alarms, unacknowledged alarms, unreset alarms generated at a resource.

If you disable alarm counters for a resource, the value of Enable Alarm Counters column is set to 0. The existing alarm counter points of the resource are deleted.