Alerts

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

Personnel can change severity attributes by modifying alarm attributes from the Advanced Database Editor (ADE).