Servers pane reference

When you select an alarm in the Enterprise Alarms pane, or in the Instances pane, the Servers pane displays the list of servers on which the selected alarm is active.

Click in a column heading to sort the data in ascending Ascending sort icon or descending Descending sort icon order.

Servers pane fields

Field

Description

Maximize/Minimize icon

To maximize the Servers pane, click this icon Maximize icon. To minimize the pane, click this icon Minimize icon.

Server

Displays the user-defined name of the server on which one or more instances of the alarm exists. (This name is the name as specified in the Server Name field of the System Management Module that allows performing suite-wide system management activities from a single, Web-based application, the Enterprise Manager. > Enterprise > Settings screen for the server.

The server name displays as a link. To open the Enterprise Manager Agent Web application installed on every system server that communicates with the Enterprise Manager regarding any configuration changes or alarm messages for the relevant server. (EMA) or Recorder Manager (RM) application on the server, click the link. You can work with alarms in either of these applications.

Alarm Name

Shows the Alarm Name as it appears 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.

Count

Displays the number of instances of the alarm that have either the Active or Ack Pending status on a server.

These alarm statuses include:

Last Triggered

Lists the date and time at which the most recent alarm instance was raised (or triggered) on the server.

The time displays in the local time Time axis in the system that refers to the time on the clock in the location where the operation occurred. zone of the user viewing the Alarms Dashboard.

Acknowledge

To acknowledge all instances of a specific alarm on the server, click the Acknowledge alarm icon icon. Acknowledge an alarm only after you have performed the corrective actions required to fix all the conditions causing the alarm.

Page controls

Use these controls to navigate through multiple pages of servers:

Page controls user interface

  • The Page box indicates the specific page of alarms that is currently displayed. To go to a specific page, type in a page number and press Enter.

  • To go to the first page of alarms or the last page of alarms, click the double arrow icons.

  • To go to the preceding page of alarms or the following page of alarms, click the single arrow icons.

To the right of the Page box, the Servers pane shows the specific alarms that are displayed.

For example: Displaying alarms 11-20 of 30 means that there are 30 total alarms and the Servers pane is displaying alarms 11 through 20.

View a list of servers on which an alarm is active

Acknowledging active alarms

Alarms in Enterprise Manager Agent and Recorder Manager