Setting up alarms using event-to-actions - Security Center 5.10

You can configure alarms so that they are triggered when an event occurs, using event-to-actions.

1. Open the System task, and click the General settings view.
2. Click the Actions page.
3. (Optional) From the Domain drop-down list, select a subject domain.
   Selecting a domain limits the configured actions displayed on this page to the ones associated to an event in that domain. The same filter also applies to all subsequent event selection drop-down lists. The domains you can select are:

   • All
   • Access control
   • ALPR
   • Intrusion detection
   • Video
4. Click Add an item ().
5. From the When drop-down list in the Event-to-action dialog box, select an event type.
   1. (Optional: ALPR only) If you select License plate read, you can specify a condition for LicensePlateRead events.
   2. (Optional: Custom events only) If you select a custom event, you can specify a text string in the and field which must be included in the macro that triggers the event-to-action.
6. In the From option, click Any entity, and then select an entity that triggers the event.
   The source entity is the entity that the event is attached to. Only events related to the selected entity type are listed.
7. From the Action drop-down list, select Trigger alarm.
8. From the Alarm drop-down list, select an alarm to trigger.
9. In the Effective option, click Always, and select a schedule when this event-to-action is active.
   The schedule determines when the event triggers the action. For example, you might want to trigger an alarm only if a window is opened during the weekend. By default, Always is selected. If the event occurs outside of the defined schedule, then the action is not triggered.
10. (Optional) Enable the Use source time zone option to configure the schedule's start and end using the time zone of the source entity's server.
    NOTE: This option is only available for cameras, video units, access control units, and doors.
11. (Optional) From the Acknowledgment condition drop-down list, select an event that must be triggered before the alarm can be acknowledged.
    This option is only available for some event types.
12. To require a user to acknowledge the alarm after the acknowledgment condition is cleared, select the User acknowledgment required option.
    If you clear this option, the alarm is automatically acknowledged when the acknowledgment condition is cleared.
13. Click Save.
    The Save button is only available when all the arguments required by the event-to-action type are specified.