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Advanced View: Configuring Pods and Alerts

102 Using Your Appliance

a. After you select Dry Contact and click OK, the Add Dry Contact Sensor window opens.

The Add Dry Contact window.

This window features the following fields and controls:

Field Description

Sensor Type Label The label represents the name of the custom sensor definition.

For example, if you are creating a custom sensor definition for

use with a normally closed (NC) motion temperature sensor

Model 42 from MyCo, Inc., you might want to use “MyCo

Model 42 Motion Sensor (NC)” as the Sensor Type Label. Once

defined, the Sensor Type Label appears only in the Sensor Type

Installed drop box when specifying Sensor Pod external port

settings.

Default Sensor Label This is the text that is used, by default, as a label for any new

sensors added using this custom sensor definition. This label is

used to identify each individual sensor in the Sensor Readings

pane, as well as in all interfaces and alert notifications. Once a

sensor has been added to your appliance, you can use the Sensor

Pod Settings task (see “Settings” on page 97) to modify the

labels for easier sensor-specific identification.

Closed Value The text used to describe the sensor value that is reported when

the dry contact sensor is in a Closed state. For example, if you

are defining a motion detector sensor that is normally closed

(NC), the Value Label (Closed) text could read “None” or “No

motion” or “OK.”

Open Value The text used to describe the sensor value that is reported when

the dry contact sensor is in a Open state. For example, if you are

defining a motion detector sensor that is normally closed (NC),

the Value Label (Open) text could read “Detected” or “Motion”

or “Alert!”

Open-Close Switch Time (ms) The amount of time that must pass (in milliseconds) when the

dry contact sensor goes from Open state to Closed state before

the state change is reported.

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