The Notification Report destination settings are available for, Telephone, Pager, Fax, and Remote Data Terminal.
Alarm Checkbox -- Check this box when you want to deliver a notification report to this destination when an alarm occurs. A telephone destination is the only destination type capable of acknowledging the report.
Alarm Acknowledgment Checkbox -- Check this box when you want to deliver an alarm acknowledged report to this destination when an alarm has been acknowledged.
Sort Report Contents By -- You have three ways to sort the notification report:
Deliver Notifications – You have three type of notification delivery:
The table below summarizes how the configured rule applies to each session/report type.
Session Type |
Delivery Rule Used During Report |
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Alarm Notification |
As configured on notification tab of destination dialog. |
Acknowledgment Notification |
As configured, except that continually until acknowledged is treated as until reported. (Because there is no way to acknowledge the acknowledgment report). |
Test Callbacks |
Always one attempt only, whether contact made or not. |
Scheduled Test Calls |
Always continually until acknowledged. |
Status Reports |
As configured on notification tab of destination dialog, except that "continuallyuntil acknowledged" will be treated as "until reported" (there is no way to acknowledge the status report). |
Log File Reports |
Always until reported. The log file segmentation granularity suffices, to prevent a lot of duplication when reports resume. |
The table below summarizes the default delivery rule for destination type.
Destination Type |
Default Delivery Rule (for alarm notifications) |
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Voice |
continually until acknowledged |
RDT |
until reported |
Alarmware |
continually until acknowledged |
Fax |
until reported |
RCS |
continually until acknowledged |
Numeric Pager |
until reported |
Alpha Pager |
until reported |
PBX |
until reported |