Beeper Action

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You can define beeper actions to activate a beeper when a device reaches a certain state change. The settings below are used to automatically build a dial string for use by the modem sending the beeper action.

Name. The name of the action as it appears in the Action Library.
Description. Enter a short description of the action. This is displayed in the Action Library dialog along with the entry in Name.
Beeper number. Enter the phone number to dial. You can use parentheses to delimit the area code and a dash to separate the exchange from the extension numbers, for example: (617) 555-5555.
Pause after answer. Enter a number of seconds the modem should pause before sending the signal codes once a connection has been made.
End transmission. By default, # is the correct symbol for the end transmission command. Some international systems require other or additional symbols.
Modem setup. Select either Primary, or one of the Alternate setups. Click Port Settings to further define your selection. Modem Setup is used specifically to support different service providers in case you use more than one provider for sending your beeper notifications. There could also be times you want to change your settings to meet a specific service provider's requirements for a specific notification (for example: a lower baud rate). To do this, you can set up an alternate Modem Setup and associate this to the notification instead of using your Primary setting.
Note: Changing the Port Settings for the desired Modem Setup will affect ALL uses of that setting.
Up code. Specifies the characters sent to the beeper to indicate that the device has come back up after being down (the default value is 0*).
Down Code. Specifies the code sent to indicate the device is down (the default value is 1*).
On passive monitor code. Specifies the code sent to indicate that an active monitor has been received for the device. (Default value is 2*) You can use the asterisk (*) character to separate codes from a subsequent message.
Recurring action code. The percent variables for the action. The default action codes are:
- %System.NumberofUpDevices

%System.NumberofDownDevices

When a Beeper action is sent, it looks for and returns a device attribute called DeviceIdentifier. If that is not found in Device Properties > Attributes it uses the last two octets of the IP address to identify the device. For example, A numeric message coming across a Beeper when a monitor comes back up is: 0-149-238

The first digit is the number configured in the Up, Down, or Passive Monitor code, the second two sets of numbers identify the device as mentioned above.

Tip: To check the status of an action, or to cancel an action, or group of actions, on the console go to Tools > Running Actions.