To avoid switching between tasks when an alarm occurs, you can enable alarm monitoring in the Monitoring task.
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Before you begin
Create your alarms. For more information, see the
Security
Center Administrator
Guide.
What you should know
When tiles are armed to monitor alarms in the Monitoring task,
alarms are no longer displayed as pop-up windows in the notification tray. You can configure alarms as pop-ups.
To enable alarm monitoring in the Monitoring task:
Open the Monitoring task.
At the bottom of the Monitoring task, click Monitoring ().
Switch the Alarm monitoring option to
ON.
You can arm or disarm all the tiles from monitoring alarms by clicking (). When a tile is armed to monitor
alarms, the tile ID background is red.
Select whether you want to monitor All alarms or Specific alarms.
If you selected Specific, do the following:
Click and select the alarms you want
to monitor.
TIP: To select multiple alarms, hold Ctrl or Shift when
selecting the alarms.
Click Add.
The Events and Alarms toggle button
appears in the top-right corner of the Monitoring task so you can
easily switch between monitoring events and alarms. If you cannot see the
Events/Alarms toggle button, drag the top of the canvas down
to expose the alarm list that appears at the top of the screen.
You can pause tile
monitoring at any time by clicking Suspend tile
monitoring.
).
). When a tile is armed to monitor
alarms, the tile ID background is red.
and select the alarms you want
to monitor.
