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Alarm Summary

Monitor > Alarm Summary

The Alarm Summary page displays alarms for all machine IDs that match the current machine ID / group ID filter. You can include additional filtering for listed alarms using fields in the Alarm Filters panel. You can also close alarms or re-open them and add notes to alarms.

Filtering Alarms

Select or enter values in one or more of the following Alarm Filter fields. The filtering takes effect as soon as you select or enter a value.

  • Alarm ID - A specific alarm ID.
  • Monitor Type - Counter, Process, Service, SNMP, Alert, System Check, Security or Log Monitoring.
  • Alarm State - Open or Closed. You can only select the Open status for an alarm listed in a dashlet Alarm Summary Window.
  • Alarm Type - Alarm or Trending.
  • Alarm Text - Text contained in the alarm.
  • Filter Alarm Count - The number of alarms displayed using the current filter criteria.

Closing Alarms

You can close alarm log records in one of two ways:

  • Click the Open link in the State column of the Alarm Summary window.

Or:

  1. Set the Alarm State drop-down list to Closed.
  2. Select one or more alarms listed in the paging area.
  3. Click the Update button.

Deleting Alarms

  1. Select one or more alarms listed in the paging area.
  2. Click the Delete... button.

Adding Notes

  1. Enter a note in the Notes field.
  2. Select one or more alarms listed in the paging area.
  3. Click the Update button.

Select Page

When more rows of data are selected than can be displayed on a single page, click the and buttons to display the previous and next page. The drop down list alphabetically lists the first record of each page of data.

Alarm ID

Lists a system-generated and unique ID for each alarm. The expand icon can be clicked to display specific alarm information.

Machine.Group ID

The list of Machine ID.Group IDs displayed is based on the Machine ID / Group ID filter and the machine groups the administrator is authorized to see using System > Group Access. Each dashlet displays all machine groups and machine IDs matching the dashlet's individual machine/group ID filter.

Alarm Date

The date and time the alarm was created.

Type

The type of monitor object: Counter, Process, Service, SNMP, Alert, System Check, Security and Log Monitoring.

Ticket

If a ticket has been generated for an alarm a Ticket ID link displays. Clicking this link displays the ticket in the Ticketing > View Ticket page. If no ticket has been generated for an alarm a New Ticket... link displays. Click this link to create a ticket for this alarm.

Name

The name of the monitoring object.