Details pane reference

The Details pane of the Alarm Dashboard displays detailed information about an active alarm, including its corrective action.

Details pane fields

Field

Description

Icon

Maximize/Minimize icon - To maximize the Details pane, click this icon Maximize icon. To minimize the pane, click this icon Minimize icon.

Priority

Shows the priority (or severity level) of the alarm.

An icon indicates each priority level.

The default priority levels are listed here in order of their severity.

  • Major Major priority icon - Address these alarms immediately. If a major alarm is not addressed, the system fails either partially or completely.

  • Minor Minor priority icon - Review these alarms and take action if necessary. Minor alarms often indicate problems that are self-correcting, or that do not have a significant impact on system performance.

  • Warning Warning priority icon - Address these alarms in a timely manner. A Warning alarm indicates that the system is functioning, but likely not at an optimum level.

  • Information Information priority icon - These alarms provide important status information but do not require any action by the administrator.

Alarm Number

The unique numeric identifier of an alarm.

Alarm Name

The alarm name as it displays in the user interface.

Note: Each alarm also has an internal alarm name, which is different from the Alarm Name that displays in the user interface. The internal alarm name is used by internal components of the alarm system and appears in log files.

Summary

A summary of the condition causing the alarm.

Last Instance Details

A specific description of the most recent instance of the alarm. This description is the most detailed information available about a specific instance of the alarm.

If this column is blank, detailed information about the alarm instance is not available.

Corrective Action

Shows the corrective action steps for the alarm.

To correct the alarm condition, follow these steps. Once the alarm has been corrected, you acknowledge the alarm to prevent the alarm from displaying as an active alarm. Acknowledged alarms are moved into Alarm History.

Note: The system automatically corrects and acknowledges some alarms.

View active alarm details and corrective actions

Acknowledging active alarms

Change the Priority assigned to an alarm

Change or create an alarm priority