# Alarm Configuration Demo

This Demo helps you do **basic alarm configuration** for the monitors you have already configured. This demo should help you configure an EMail alarm - to sent an email if the CPU utilization crosses a critical threshold of 75%.

[![Begin Demo](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/howtodemos/images/begin-demo.jpg)](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/howtodemos/configure_alerts/sequence.html)

## Terms you need to know

**Alarms**: Alarms are notifications generated based on some condition or criteria called Thresholds.

**Threshold**: Threshold is a predefined set of values based on which an alarm is generated.

**Actions**: Actions are tasks to be performed when alarms are generated E.g., Send EMail, SMS etc.,

There are Four **severity levels** for the alarms and they are:

*Critical* ![ ](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/howtodemos/configure_alerts/images/icon_critical.gif), *Warning* ![ ](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/howtodemos/configure_alerts/images/icon_warning.gif), *Clear* ![ ](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/howtodemos/configure_alerts/images/icon_clear.gif) and *Unknown*

Alarms are generated based on:

1. **Availability** of the monitor - represents whether the particular monitor is up or not. It has two states of severity - UP / DOWN  

2. **Health** - represents the overall state of the monitor. Depends on the severity of all the other attributes. It has four states of severity - Critical / Warning / Clear / Unknown  

3. **Attributes** (Numeric & String attributes) - Alarms will be generated, if the threshold profile condition set for these attributes is met. eg., alarm will be generated if threshold of the attribute - cpu utilization crosses 75%