2.23.4 Active alarms

The Active alarms tab lists all actually pending faults and warnings in the M&C. The Table automatically updates its content as the faults appear or disappear.

Table columns

• TIME: The time stamp when the event was originated
• PRIO: The message priority. The message priority decides on the urgency, the message gets delivered from the M&C to the client. It also is a search criteria in the Event Report window. The following priority symbols may appear:
  • : This is an informational message (lowest priority)
  • : This is a fault message (medium priority)
  • : This is an alarm message (highest priority, the MNC tries to deliver this immediately, regardless of the dial timing settings)
• DEVICE: The secondary message source. This gives a more detailed information about the source of the message. It may be the name of the device in a MNC which caused the event.
• MESSAGE: The message text.

Right toolbar

The toolbar buttons of the window let you select how the fault list displays the active faults:

• Select fault list: Select an MNC name from the drop-down list for which you want to check faults. Primary M&C is selected as default.
• Sort by: The table content can sort by descending and ascending of it's time.
• Colorized the background: If checked, the background of each line gets background color as the icon red for faults, yellow for warnings.
• Suppress warnings: If checked, the table content suppresses all warnings and show only faults only. Otherwise faults and warnings are displayed.
• Acknowledge all faults: Acknowledge all faults marked with the red exclamation mark.