If a user doesn't receive an alarm in Security Desk, you can troubleshoot the cause of the issue.
Before you begin
IMPORTANT: If you modify privileges or partitions for a user
to troubleshoot alarms, make sure the user logs off and then back on so the changes are
registered.
Procedure
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Make sure the user who is trying to receive the alarm is a recipient of the alarm, as
follows:
- Open the Alarms task and click the Alarms view.
- Select the alarm, and click the Properties tab.
- Make sure the user, or the user group they are a member of, is in the Recipients list.
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Make sure that the alarm schedule isn’t preventing you from triggering the alarm at
this moment, as follows:
- Click the Advanced tab of the alarm.
- Make sure the schedule listed in the Schedule list applies at this time.
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Make sure that the alarm recipient has the correct user privileges to receive alarms,
as follows:
- From the Config Tool homepage, open the User management task.
- Select the user to configure, and click the Privileges tab.
- Make sure the Alarm monitoring and Acknowledge alarms user privileges are set to Allow.
- Click Apply.
- If you use partitions in your system, make sure that the alarm belongs to a partition to which the user has access.
- If your system is configured to hide alarms from users who don’t have permission to view the alarm source, make sure that the source entity of the alarm belongs to a partition to which the user has access.