Alarm notification profile overview

Use alarm notification profiles to notify individual employees or the network management system when individual alarms are triggered. Employees are notified by email. The network management system is notified by SNMP traps.

An alarm notification profile List of email addresses or SNMP nodes assigned to an alarm. If the alarm is triggered, the email addresses and the SNMP nodes receive a notification. is a list that includes email addresses, SNMP nodes (for the network management system), or both.

An alarm notification profile is assigned to an alarm. When the alarm is triggered, an email is sent to each email address in the profile. An SNMP trap is sent to each SNMP node in the profile.

The notification email lists only the UTC time at which an alarm was triggered. The email does not provide the alarm trigger time in any other time zones.

Standard, custom, and testing profiles

The types of notification profiles are standard profiles, custom profiles, and an alarm testing profile.

Standard notification profiles are available by default and are the recommended way to provide notifications of triggered alarms to your employees and the network management system.

If the standard notification profiles do not meet all the needs of your enterprise, you can create custom notification profiles. Custom notification profiles are useful when a notification profile is needed for a special purpose.

An Alarm Testing profile is available to test that the alarm system is working properly. From the Alarm Testing profile you can raise and acknowledge four test alarms. The four test alarms include one alarm assigned to each of the four alarm priorities: Warning, Information, Minor, and Major.