How AQT Alarm Trigger works

1. AQT Alarm needs to be set on a specific chart

2. Trigger occurs every time an alarm condition in AQT is violated
3. Responsiveness of the Alarm Trigger depends on the chart’s refresh rate
• Pareto charts (1 min)
• Trend charts (30 min)
4. Trigger will execute batch file (run.bat at bin\alarmconf )
• The run.bat takes in 3 parameters:

Name of the file that defines the hosts to send to – hosts.txt at bin\alarmconf

Alarm message (canned message*)

Name of the file that logs all status of each attempt to do a net send – status.log at bin\alarmconf
• Send Default Net message (to ART, or any PC in the domain)
• Customer can use the run.bat as a extension point to customize it to execute specific scripts for their
own application purposes
5. All Default Alarm messages are saved in Win2k Event Viewer System Log
6. Microsoft Messenger Service on the sending and receiving PC must be started as default for
this messaging mechanism to work

• It is still a “undocumented” feature, incorporated as a workaround solution for Intel.

* current trigger message is “Alarm triggered at Agilent Quality Tool (<host_name>) on the <chart_title> chart!”.

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Customized
Canned Alarm
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Customer AQT Triggers a

Device Customer customized batch
Application execution

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