1. From the Type <\/strong>drop-down list, select Periodic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The Trigger<\/strong> panel appearance changes, as shown in the screen image below:<\/p>\n 2. Select a start time.<\/p>\n You can set a periodic trigger to start immediately, or at a specified time in the future.<\/p>\n Or<\/p>\n 3. Select a time interval in the Interval <\/strong>box.<\/p>\n Or<\/p>\n 4. To ensure that the monitor is triggered at exact intervals from the start time, select the Quantise<\/strong> check box.<\/p>\n Tip: To set trigger times that start on the hour or on the minute, set the start time to be exactly on the hour and minute (for example, 19\/06\/2013 1:00pm<\/strong>). With the quantise check box selected, the monitor will trigger at exactly every minute, hour, day, etc. (depending on the selected interval) from that time so that your trigger times are, for example, 20\/06\/2013 1:00pm<\/strong>, 21\/06\/2013 1:00pm<\/strong>, 22\/06\/2013 1:00pm<\/strong>, 23\/06\/2013 1:00pm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The periodic trigger causes the monitor to start at each set interval. The interval period can be a minute, 5 minutes, an hour, a week, or every two hours, every three minutes and so on, depending on the interval settings selected.<\/p>\n Note: The first trigger time for the monitor is the start time plus the trigger interval. Subsequent trigger start times are the last trigger time plus the trigger interval.<\/p>\n Use a date trigger to initiate monitor processing at selected date intervals<\/strong>, at a set time.<\/p>\n 1. From the Type <\/strong>drop-down list, select Date<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The Trigger<\/strong> panel appearance changes, as shown in the screen image below:<\/p>\n 2. Select a start time.\u00a0You can set a date trigger to start immediately, or at a specified time in the future.<\/p>\n 3. Select an interval (Daily, Monthly, or Yearly) from the Repeat<\/strong> drop-down list.<\/p>\n 4. Select the trigger days of the week, days of the month, or days of the year, as appropriate:<\/p>\n The trigger runs the monitor tests on all of the selected days, at the specified run time.<\/p>\n The trigger runs the tests on the specified day of every month, at the specified run time.<\/p>\n Note: If the day in the Days <\/strong>box is greater than the number of days in a month, then the trigger runs for the last day of that month. For example, if the day is set to 31 and the month is April (which only has 30 days), the trigger runs for day 30.<\/p>\n The trigger runs the monitor tests every year, on the specified day of the specified month, at the specified run time.<\/p>\n 5. Click the calendar icon to select a run time.<\/p>\n Note: The first trigger time for the monitor is the next date and time selected, after the start date. Subsequent trigger times will be at the next repeat period, after the last trigger time.<\/p>\n You may want to trigger a monitor when various states are reached by a test within another monitor. To achieve this outcome, the triggered monitor needs a monitor chaining trigger<\/strong>.<\/p>\n To set up a monitor chaining trigger:<\/p>\n 1. Select Monitor Chaining<\/strong> from the Type<\/strong> drop-down list.<\/p>\n The Trigger<\/strong> panel appearance changes, as shown in the screen image below:<\/p>\n 2. Add a Triggering Monitor.\u00a0This is the monitor which causes the trigger to activate.<\/p>\n When the monitor is positioned directly over the Monitor<\/strong> box, an arrow The triggering monitor name appears in the Monitor<\/strong> box.<\/p>\n 3. Select a test from the Test<\/strong> drop-down list.\u00a0This is the particular test within the triggering monitor which will cause the new chained monitor trigger to activate.<\/p>\n The selected test is the triggering test, and appears in the Test<\/strong> box of the trigger panel.<\/p>\n 4. From the States <\/strong>check list, select Triggering States<\/strong>. You may select one or more of the listed states.<\/p>\n These are the selected states within the test that cause the trigger to activate (for tests that use Monitor Chaining Source<\/strong> as their source).<\/p>\n The monitor chaining trigger is ready. Every time the Triggering Test of the Triggering Monitor reaches any of the Triggering States, the monitor is triggered.<\/p>\n The source for any test using a chained monitor defaults to Monitor Chaining Source<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The test inherits the source configuration from the chaining test. 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