Creating alarms - Security Center 5.12

For alarms to be triggered in your system, you must create an alarm entity and set up its properties.

1. From the Config Tool homepage, open the Alarms task and click the Alarms view.
2. Click Alarm ().
   A new alarm entity () appears in the Alarms view.
3. Type a name for the alarm and press Enter.
   Tip: To easily determine what happened when the alarm is triggered, give names to alarms that best describe the situations.
4. Click the Properties tab.
5. In the Priority option, set the priority of the alarm based on the urgency of the situation.
   Higher priority alarms are displayed first in Security Desk.
6. To add recipients for the alarm, do the following:
   1. Click Add an item () in the Recipients section.
   2. Select the users, user groups, or analog monitor groups.
   3. Click Add.
   Recipients are notified when the alarm occurs, and are responsible for responding to the alarm.
7. If an alarm has multiple recipients, select a Broadcast mode option:

   All at once

   All recipients are notified at the same time, immediately after the alarm is triggered.

   Sequential

   Each recipient is notified sequentially after a Forward delay that is calculated from the time the alarm is triggered.

8. To add entities to help describe the alarm, click Add an item () under the Attached entities section, select the entities, and click Select.
   Attached entities help users react to the alarm situation. When the alarm is received in Security Desk, the canvas in the Alarm monitoring task displays the attached entities: cameras, doors, areas, alarm procedures, and so on.
9. From the Video display option list, select the video display options for when the alarm is triggered.
10. To automatically rotate the attached entities inside a monitoring tile when the alarm is triggered, switch the Content cycling option to ON, and set the number of seconds each entity is displayed for.
    NOTE: Entities are displayed in Security Desk in the same order that they appear in the list. When an event triggers the alarm, the entity that caused the event is also attached to the alarm, and is displayed first.
11. Click Apply.
12. Click the Advanced tab and configure the optional alarm settings.