To test an alarm that you just created, or if something critical occurs and you want to activate an alarm, you can trigger the alarm manually.
Before you begin
- The alarm must be configured in Config Tool.
- The alarm cannot be set to maintenance mode.
- If you want to trigger alarms from the Monitoring task, you must enable alarm monitoring.
Procedure
To trigger an alarm manually:
Do one of the following:
- In the Config
Tool
Alarms task, select an alarm, and then click Trigger
alarm (
) in the toolbar at the bottom of the workspace. - In the Security
Desk notification
tray, click Hot actions (
) > Manual action. Click Trigger alarm (),
select an alarm, and then click OK. - In the Security
Desk
Alarm monitoring task or Monitoring task, click
Trigger alarm (
),
select an alarm, and clickTrigger alarm.