How To Set Up Alerts For Your Digital Active Power Sensor In Device ManageR

Before you can set up Digital Active Power sensor alerts in Device ManageR, you must first configure the sensor in your Room Alert Monitor. Your Digital Active Power Sensor will not appear in Device ManageR unless you first configure it in your Room Alert Monitor.

To configure your Digital Active Power Sensor, follow these steps:

1. Open your Room Alert Monitor’s web interface. You may open the interface using Device Discovery, Device ManageR, or your account at RoomAlert.com. You may also type the IP address of the unit directly into the address bar of your web browser.

2. Navigate to Settings→Network in the navigation bar to the left.

3. Find the digital sensor interface that matches the port you connected your Digital Active Power Sensor to. For example, if you used the first digital port on your Room Alert Monitor, look for Sensor 1 Alarm Configuration; if you used the second, look for Sensor 2 Alarm Configuration, and so on.

4. In the Sensor Type drop-down menu, select Temp/Active Power.

5. In Sensor Label, you may leave the default, Ext Sensor X, or name your Digital Active Power Sensor. In our example, we’re calling it DAP Server 1.

6. In Power, make a selection in the drop-down menu depending on how you intend to alert:

– If you wish alerts to come only from Device ManageR, leave the default Alert Disabled. This means the Room Alert itself will not go into an alert state for the Power portion of the Digital Active Power Sensor.

– If you wish also to alert from the Room Alert unit itself, select No Power Detected or Power Detected.

7. Select Save Settings at the top or bottom of the page. Your Room Alert Monitor will automatically reboot and commit your changes.

Once you have configured your mail server, your contacts, your actions and your Action/Notification Lists in Device ManageR , you may set up an alert for your Digital Active Power Sensor by following the instructions below:

1. Open Device ManageR in your web browser. You may open it by entering ‘localhost:8080’ or ‘<IP address of Device ManageR’s host system>:8080’ in your browser’s address bar.

2. Select Alerts / Tasks in the navigation bar to the left.

3. In the Alerts / Tasks menu, select Alerts.

4. Select Add to add a new alert.

5. In the Add New Alert screen that appears:

– In Name, enter a name for your alert. Our example is called DAP Server 1 – No Power Detected.

– In Device, select your Room Alert Monitor from the drop-down list. We’re choosing the Room Alert 32E in our data center.

– In Alarm when…, you’ll then see a drop-down list with all of the unit’s individual sensors. Select your Digital Active Power Sensor – Volts. (Ext Sensor 1 – Volts, for example.)

– In is, set the threshold for the Digital Active Power Sensor:

To alert for power OFF, enter ‘less than (<) 0.18.’

The Digital Active Power Sensor considers power to be off when it detects less than 0.18 volts.

With this setting, when the voltage reaches 0.17 or lower, Device ManageR will go into an alert state; this alert state will clear when the voltage reaches 0.18 or higher.

To alert for power ON, enter ‘greater than or equal to (>=) 0.18.’

The Digital Active Power Sensor considers power to be on when it detects 0.18 or more volts.

With this setting, when the voltage reaches 0.18 or higher, Device ManageR will go into an alert state; this alert state will clear when the voltage reaches 0.17 or lower.

– In Alarm if item is unavailable for X scans, you may leave the default, 4 scans, or enter another value. You may also disable this feature if you wish by unchecking the check box. In our example, we’re leaving the default.

– In Action / Notification List, select an already-configured list from the drop-down menu or create a new one by selecting Add. Here we’re choosing a List we called Notify IT Staff.

– Then select Save.