Alarms in iControl > Key Concepts > Alarms
 

Alarms

Alarms are the central feature of monitoring in iControl. There are three types of alarms in the General Status Manager (GSM): events, statuses, and text alarms.
An alarm:
• is a status report on a specific condition within a site
• can inform and/or alert
• refers to a single defined condition, usually generated by a device
• can cause an event, status, text, or a combination of status and text to result depending on the configuration of the alarm
The following table provides a brief description of the various types of alarms available within iControl.
 
 
Alarm Type
System Created
Description
Health Monitor
Yes
This alarm indicates the health of the system devices and automatically appears in the Alarm Browser window.
iControl
Yes
This alarm indicates if all the connected cards and devices are available to the system by automatically appearing in the Alarm Browser window.
iC Web
This alarm indicates if the services required by iC Web are available by automatically appearing in the Alarm Browser window. When the iC Creator page is saved it is automatically saved on the Application Server and appears in the alarm list. The link to the Web page has a status as a virtual alarm.
Third Party Devices
These alarms indicate the operational status of third-party devices such as SNMP plug-ins
Virtual
This alarm is a combination of one or more sub-alarms that can cause a status or text to result depending on the configuration of the alarm and is configured entirely by the user.