Advanced edit tab

Note: The following standard monitor settings display on most monitors. See the Monitor reference for monitor-specific settings.

Alert settings

Alarm generation - Specifies the minimum number of consecutive "tests" that must fail to generate an alarm.
Alarm test interval - Specifies how much time must elapse between tests after the first Failed alarm is generated. This interval is usually much longer then the Test interval on the Basics tab, to give you time to respond to the original alarm. After the first alarm count, each additional, consecutive test that fails increases the alarm count by one.
Active - If checked, this monitor is active. A monitor that is not active does not perform any tests. This option is checked by default.

Statistics and chart settings

Store statistics - If checked, data collected is stored to disk.
Chart resolution - The duration displayed by the chart.
Group channels - The number of channels of data allowed on a single chart if a monitor returns multiple channels of data. This is mainly useful for monitors such as the Environment monitor that store separate statistics data for different external sensors.

Simple maintenance

These settings provide a quick method of specifying a maintenance period for a single monitor.

Note: Use Word 80% / HTML 80% > Schedules > Monitor maintenance to specify maintenance schedules for multiple monitors.

Start time / (end time) - The range of time during the day when this monitor is down for maintenance.
Day of week - The days of the week this monitor is down for maintenance.
Maintenance mode - Stop test during maintenance. This is the only mode available during a maintenance period.

Alert and recovery settings

Inherit alarm messages - Sets the Alarm Messages format for this node.
Inherit actions - If checked, inherited actions and inherited recovery actions are included on the Actions tab of this node.