About alarms

An alarm is any alert not driven by a single, specific event. Alarms usually involve the relationship of an object (such as a task or project) to time, or another object.

For example, to determine whether to send a reminder about an approaching task deadline, IBM® Marketing Operations must determine the current date, compare it to the task scheduled dates, check how many days in advance the customer has set reminders, and then determine whether to send a reminder for that task.

Marketing Operations must run through all objects, and perform these checks, periodically. By default, the polling period which the system does these alarm checks is once every 24 hours. You can configure this on an object-by-object basis, using the following configuration parameters under Settings > Configuration > Marketing Operations > umoConfiguration > notifications.

> approval: notifyApprovalAlarmMonitorPollPeriod

> project: notifyProjectAlarmMonitorPollPeriod

> asset: notifyAssetAlarmMonitorPollPeriod

For more information on setting these options, see the IBM® Marketing Operations Installation Guide.