Introduction to alarms

Monitors in Paragon Active Assurance can be associated with alarms. Broadly speaking, an alarm is triggered when something is amiss with the monitor. The following types of alarm can be set:

• When the number of errored seconds within a specified time window exceeds a defined threshold. In other words, this kind of alarm is raised when the level of SLA fulfillment drops.

• When a task in a monitor stops delivering data. This is often caused by a Test Agent going offline unexpectedly.

Alarms can be sent either as SNMP traps or by email. This and other aspects of alarm setup are configured in your Paragon Active Assurance account, as described here.

How to activate an alarm for a monitor is explained on this page.

An overview of all alarms defined in your account is found on the alarm dashboard.