Alarm Actions

In essence, an alarm action is a traceable task that guides the user to follow a certain procedure when an alarm arrives. By default, an alarm has no actions. All actions can be configured with the Maintenance console. Alarm actions are therefore specific to the implementation and more detail can be found in the G-SIM Configuration and Implementation Manual.

The alarm action directs a user to perform a certain task as a result of the alarm condition. To allow for the traceability of the action, the user is forced to provide an action result or response. The health monitor plug-in architecture provides the following alarm action response types to facilitate its traceability and to allow the Operator console to interpret the action into a user response graphical interface.

Action Response Type	Description
Text	The user is forced to supply a text description as a response to the action request.
Check	The user is forced to acknowledge that the action item was attended to.
YesNo	The user is forced to supply a Yes or No answer to the action request.