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.
- If you want to trigger alarms
from the Monitoring task, you must enable alarm monitoring.
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 . 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.
All pre-configured alarm recipients receive the alarm if they are logged on to Security
Desk.