Vaisala viewLinc 4.3 - Manual (Page 111)

Adding New Devices
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Adding New Devices
As your network monitoring needs increase, viewLinc makes it easy to
expand your monitoring capabilities with the addition of new Devices
and Hosts.
Refer
to “Discovering Devices” on page 31 to learn how to add additional
Devices
and Hosts to expand your viewLinc system.
Setting Up Device and Host
Alarms
Communication between Devices and the viewLinc Server is essential for
real-time monitoring of conditions. Because of this, viewLinc allows you
to configure both Host and Device Communication Alarms, as well as
Device Alarms (Device Calibration, Configuration and Calibration).
Communication Alarms
Communication alarms notify Users if communications are down at any
point – the alarm controls how the alarm displays on a User’s screen,
who is notified, when the alarm notification is initiated, whether
acknowledgement is required.
By default, there is one communication alarm preconfigured for each
Host and each Device. You can specify whether you want the Device or
Host to use the default communication alarm template or your own
custom communication alarm template (see “Templates” on page 49), or