Alerts

Alarms that do not require a response, and which you can safely ignore, can clutter up alarm summary windows and potentially distract you. The Alerts application relegates such minor and low severity alarms to the Alerts Summary window. Alerts are nevertheless important messages and should be read and acknowledged when convenient.

Administrators can configure the system to treat alarms of lower severity as "Alerts" to prevent such alarms from showing up in any alarm summary. Controllers must open a separate summary to view these alerts.

The following summary windows, meanwhile, display alarms of medium, major, high, or critical severity:

• Alarm Summary window

• New Alarm Summary window

The following table illustrates the various alarms/alerts and their colors.

Sample Alarm/Alert Color Coding

Administrators can change severity attributes by modifying alarm attributes by using the Advanced Database Editor (ADE).