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>"You can configure an alarm to go off when a metric fails."
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>I didn't like the "go off" verb, so I changed it to sound. He then pointed
>out that it might not be an audible alarm. The alarm could be a light that
>lights up, or some other nonaudible indicator.
I don't have any problem with alarms that go off. That's good old
Anglo-Saxon. But I do have a problem with the idea that a "metric fails".
If the alarm goes off when some limit is reached or exceeded, then I would
have to say that, if anything, the metric succeeded. If measurement had
failed, the alarm would not have gone off.
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Mark Baker
Senior Technical Communicator
OmniMark Technologies Corporation
1400 Blair Place
Gloucester, Ontario
Canada, K1J 9B8
Phone: 613-745-4242
Fax: 613-745-5560
Email mbaker -at- omnimark -dot- com
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