Alarms - Current Alarms

The Current Alarms screen displays alarms that have not been cleared.

To View Current Alarms

On SBC main screen, go to Monitoring > Dashboard > Alarms > Current Alarms. The Current Alarms window is displayed.

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The Current Alarm Status screen displays the following fields:

By default, the Current Alarms screen displays only five current alarms status. You can select the number of alarms you want to view in the Show entries drop-down list.

The total number of records available is displayed at the left bottom of the panel. An option to navigate between the pages is available at the right bottom of the panel. It also displays the current page number that you are viewing.

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Filters

You can now filter the alarms to view only the required alarms. All the filter options are right above their respective columns. Here are the filter options:

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• Severity Filter: Severity filter displays only the alarms with the selected severity. The severity options, All, Urgent, Major, Minor, and Info are provided in a drop-down box. By default, the filter option is set to All.
• Status Filter: Status filter displays only the alarms with the selected type of Status. The Status options, All, Active, and Acknowledged are provided in a drop-down box. By default, the filter option is set to All.
• Comments Filter: Comments filter displays alarms with any specific comment (if any). You should be aware of the alarm comment for which you are performing the filter.

• Time/Date Range Filter: Time/Date Range filter displays all the alarms within the specified time or date duration. A calender with time is provided as an option for you to select the duration and time for which you want to perform the filter functionality.

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• Alarm Description Filter: Alarms Description filter displays only those specific alarms which matches the description text entered in the filter. You should be aware of the text that would exist as a part of the alarm description to fetch the correct results. This is system generated message.

You can refresh the screen using the refresh button  provided just below the filter option.

To Edit Current Alarm

To edit any of the Current Alarms listed, click the radio button next to the specific Alarm name.

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The Edit Alarm window is displayed:

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The following fields are displayed:

• Status: Displays the current status of the selected alarm. The options are: Active, Acknowledged and Cleared, You can change the status of the selected alarm.
• Additional Info: This field displays any additional information about the alarm if available.
• Reporter: Specifies the node from which the alarm is triggered.
• Type: This field specifies the type of alarm (Critical, Major, Minor, and Informational).
• Comments: If there are any additional comments for this alarm, you can add them here. This is the only field which is editable.

Change the status of the alarm if required and add additional information in Comments  text box and click Save to save your edits.

To Clear Current Alarm

To clear any of the Current Alarms listed, click the radio button next to the specific Alarm name.

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The Edit Alarm window is displayed:

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Select Cleared for the status and click Save to save the changes. The selected alarm gets cleared from the Current Alarm List panel.

To Clear Multiple Alarms

To clear multiple alarms from the Current Alarms List panel, click Clear All Alarms Shown or Clear All Alarms in System.

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The following options helps you to clear the current alarms displayed:

• Clear All Alarms Shown: This option clears all the alarms which are displayed on the panel.
• Clear All Alarms in System: This option clears all the alarms present in the SBC system. This also includes all the alarms displayed on the panel too.

Enable Live Feed

Enabling Live Feed updates the alarms automatically. The Alarms table gets updated periodically. If there are any new alarms when Live Feed is enabled, the alarm gets listed in the table. If it is disabled, you have to refresh the table manually.