Adding a notification rule

Add a notification rule to receive messages when alarms or incidents happen in your power system.

To add a new notification rule:

1. In Notification Manager, select the Rules tab, and then click Add Notification Rule to open the Add Notification Rule window.

   TIP: Click Duplicate or use the Duplicate command, in the right-click context menu, to duplicate an existing notification rule.

2. In Add Notification Rule, select the alarm view for which you want to monitor the activity and receive notifications. Click Next.
3. Select one or more recipients to receive a notification. Click Next.

   TIP: You can add a new recipient to the system by clicking Add Recipient. See Adding a recipient for more information.

4. (Optional) Select a notification schedule and the schedule timezone for this notification rule. Click Next.

   TIP: You can add a new schedule to the system by clicking Add Schedule. See Adding a Schedule for more information.

5. Specify a notification Rule Name.
6. Enable or disable the rule.
7. Select a message template.
8. Set the Delivery Options:
   1. Enable or disable email notification.
   2. Enable or disable SMS notification.
   3. Enable or disable SNMP notification.
   4. Set which activities in the alarm view trigger a notification.

      NOTE: You can choose to only receive notifications when an alarm goes active or a new incident happens.
      Or you can choose to receive notifications on all activity.

9. Click Finish.

Related Topics:

Event Notification Module configuration

Settings

• Editing notification settings

Rules

• Adding a notification rule
• Enabling or disabling a notification rule
• Editing a notification rule
• Deleting a notification rule

Recipients

• Adding a recipient
• Editing a recipient
• Deleting a recipient

Templates

• Adding a template
• Editing a template
• Deleting a template

Schedules

• Adding a Schedule
• Editing a schedule
• Deleting a schedule

For reference information see:

• Notification Manager user interface
• Add Rule UI
• Add Recipient UI
• Add Template UI
• Schedules Configuration UI
• Notification delay example