Recovering from alarms

A monitor may recover from an Alarm state by itself. If so, Network Monitor is able to react to this event. For example, if a monitor is currently in an Alarm state and performs a test that succeeds, the monitor status automatically changes back to an Ok state. When a monitor recovers, Network Monitor can execute a recover action list, if one is specified. A recover action list can be specified by a monitor or indirectly by the object of a monitor.

Note: Network Monitor does not execute the recover action list when the state of the monitor is altered directly by the operator, for example by acknowledging alarms, or by editing the properties of a monitor, which always return the monitor to an Ok state.

When the monitor recovers, all actions defined in the recover action list are executed, regardless of the alarm number. Creating separate action lists to serve as recovery action lists is recommended.

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