Specifications

Appendix A: Private Networking
Network-Wide Alarms
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Network-Wide Alarms
To allow one administrator to monitor multiple nodes, the system provides both system alarms
and network-wide alarms:
• Network-Wide Alarms: When an event occurs that generates a network-wide alarm, the
alarm is broadcast to every node in the system.
• System Alarms: System alarms appear only on the node on which the alarm was
generated.
Sending and Receiving Network Alarms
Each node has two system flags that determine whether the node broadcasts or receives
network-wide alarms.
• The Send Network Alarms flag determines whether a node will broadcast alarms that
occur on that node to the rest of the network.
• The Receive Network Alarms flag determines whether the node will receive and display
alarms sent by other nodes in the network.
To differentiate between network-wide and local alarms, network-wide alarms appear on
administrator endpoints preceded by “NET ALARM” and local system alarms are preceded with
“SYS ALARM.”
On remote nodes, network-wide alarms will indicate the name of the node on which the alarm
occurred. The node name is obtained from the node username.
Clearing Network Alarms
An administrator can clear a network-wide alarm on the local node only or on every node in the
network.
• Clear Network Alarm (9851): This feature code clears network-wide alarms on every
node in the network, but will not affect system alarms. The Clear Network Alarm feature
code may be entered on any node in the network, but the Send Network Alarms flag must
be set for the administrator to clear alarms on other nodes in the network.
• Clear System Alarm (9850): This feature code clears all local and network-wide system
alarm displays on your node.
Network-wide alarms will override system alarms on an administrator’s display endpoint.