The Offline mode is generally employed in the execution of an automated task. Setting alarms to Offline mode has a similar effect, except that each latch is also reset when alarms are put back online.

Consider the case where several TV channels go “off air” every morning between 02:00 a.m. and 06:00 a.m. A schedule could be established (see note below), or a script could be created, to turn off the alarm display for these channels automatically during the specified intervals. Such a schedule or script would set the appropriate alarms to Offline mode at 02:00, to avoid having iControl report a sudden flood of alarms due to loss of signal.

Similarly, the schedule/script would put the alarms back online at 06:00, at which point, with the signals restored, the alarms would normally all return to green. Anything that happened during the offline period, however, would not be visible in iControl, because each latch is also reset when an alarm is put back online.