When an alarm is triggered, you can view the following information in the
Alarm monitoring and the Monitoring
task.
ID:
Alarm instance number. Uniquely identifies each
alarm instance.
Alarm:
Alarm entity name.
Priority:
Alarm priority. All alarms imported from
Omnicast™ have their
priority set to 1 by default. You can change their priority at a later
time in the Config Tool.
Alarm color:
Color of the alarm.
Source:
The source entity that triggered
the alarm, when the alarm is triggered by an event-to-action. It shows a
username when the alarm is triggered manually.
Triggering
event:
Event that triggered the alarm (if
triggered through an event-to-action). Manual action is indicated
when the alarm was manually triggered by a user.
Trigger
time:
Time the alarm was triggered in Security
Center.
State:
Current state of the alarm.
Active:
Alarm is not yet acknowledged. Selecting an active alarm
shows the alarm acknowledge buttons in the report pane.
Acknowledged (Default):
Alarm was acknowledged using the default mode.
Acknowledged (Alternate):
Alarm was acknowledged using the alternate mode.
Acknowledged (Forcibly):
Alarm was forced to be acknowledged by an
administrator.
Under investigation:
Alarm that is under investigation, meaning that someone has
seen it but not necessarily able to take care of it.
Acknowledgement required:
Alarm with an acknowledgement condition that was cleared and
that is ready to be acknowledged.
Context:
Alarm annotation.
Acknowledged
by:
User who acknowledged the alarm. When
the alarm is acknowledge automatically by the system, Service is
indicated.
Acknowledged
on:
Time the alarm was
acknowledged.
Investigated
by:
The user who put the alarm into the under
investigation state.
Investigated
on:
The timestamp when the alarm was put
into the investigation state.
Occurrence
period:
Period when the event
occurred.
Source entity
type:
The source entity type that
triggered the alarm, when the alarm is triggered by an event-to-action.
It shows User when the alarm is triggered
manually.
Source time:
Time of
the alarm-triggering event. The only time Source
time and Triggering time are different is when
the event occurred while the access control unit was offline.
Custom
fields:
The predefined custom fields for the
entity. The columns only appear if custom fields are defined for the
entity, and if the custom fields were made visible to you when they were
created or last configured.