Owner's Manual

804 Alarms
The default severity definitions are:
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Critical —A service-halting condition occurs, requiring immediate corrective action. The
equipment is completely out of service and you must restore its capability.
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Major —A service-affecting condition has developed and corrective action is required. There is a
severe degradation in the equipment’s capability and you must restore its full capability.
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Minor —A non-service-affecting fault condition exists and corrective action should be taken in
order to prevent a more serious fault. The detected alarm condition is not currently degrading
the capacity of the equipment.
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Warning —A potential or impending service-affecting fault could occur, and no significant effects
have yet been felt. Action should be taken to further diagnose and correct the problem to
prevent it from becoming a more serious service-affecting fault. The detected alarm condition
does not currently pose a problem, but may degrade the capacity of the equipment if you do
not take corrective action.
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Indeterminate —The severity level cannot be determined.
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Information —General information about the condition of the object, device, or system.
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Cleared —The problem is corrected, and the correlated alarm is cleared from the Active Alarm
table.
Alarm Manager
In the Default filter, only open alarms appear on these screens. You can change displayed columns
(Alarm attributes) with the plus (+) button near the top of the screen, and modify filters to restrict
the alarms that appear in the display (see Chapter 28, Filters for more about filters). You can filter
on most attributes described in Alarm Table Columns on page 807.
For example, you could filter to see alarms that are major and above for only selected equipment.
Figure 33-2. Alarm Manager