What are alarms?
We want you to know when there is a problem
Each Clever Logger can send out a number of different alarms – high temperature, low temperature, low battery, etc. The idea is very simple: we want you to know when there is a problem.
But what happens if there is a power failure, your fridge heats up, stock is damaged, and then power returns and your fridge cools down again? If you were to then look at the temperature you would only see that your fridge is cold. For a restaurant they now run the risk of serving potentially hazardous food to customers. For pharmacies and GPs, their vaccines may be compromised.
Alarms are designed to
notify you of what is currently a problem
AND
remind you of what may have been a problem
How do we achieve this?
An alarm record is created when a problem starts to occur.
We will then start to notify people that there is a problem. We can do this with emails and phone notifications.
If repeat notifications are enabled (and they are by default), we will then continue to send notifications.
Depending upon how it is configured, the reminders won’t stop until:
– one user acknowledges that there is a problem (they literally press the “Acknowledge alarm” button. By default, the phone notifications are designed to disturb you so that you know there is a problem. Once one person has been disturbed and acknowledges that there is a problem we don’t need to disturb other people.
– the problem is fixed. An offline alarm, for example, occurs when we haven’t heard from a logger or gateway in a while. Once it is back online there is no need to disturb users because all is working.
– the problem is acknowledged OR fixed.
– the problem is acknowledged AND fixed. Our temperature related email notifications are typically set this way. It ensures you are reminded until the problem is fixed, but if it automatically fixes itself overnight, we still want you to acknowledge that there was a problem.
What to do if you get an alarm
There are two parts to answering this question. The first is “what am I meant to do in Clever Logger?” and “how do I fix the problem?”
The following articles will answer each of these questions.

What do I do in Clever Logger with alarms?
This includes information on how to view them, acknowledge them and close them.
How are alarms configured?

How to configure locations
Including high and low temperature alarms, offline alarms and low battery alarms.

How to configure notification groups
Including how to add notification groups, change settings, and

How to configure users
Including how to add and remove users, and change their level of access.