1.4.8 Alarm Status window

The Alarm Status window displays the status of the alarms in the alarm table that is bound to (associated with) the selected monitoring agent. To display this window, from the method frame in the Agents window, choose Display Alarm Status.

The following shows the Alarm Status window.

Figure 1‒47: Alarm Status window

The following describes the displayed items:

Refresh date

This item indicates the displayed or refreshed date and time of the window in the following format:

date hh:mm:ss GMTtime-difference

date:: The date is displayed in the format set by the selectFormat property in the initial settings file (config.xml). For details about the date display format, see the chapter that explains installation and setup in the JP1/Performance Management Planning and Configuration Guide.
time-difference:: The number of hours and minutes the time zone of the host on which PFM - Web Console is running is offset from GMT is displayed in +hh:mm or -hh:mm format.
hh:: Displays hours.
mm:: Displays minutes.
ss:: Displays seconds.

Refresh

Updates the agent and alarm statuses to the latest information.

If a message such as A connection to the agent cannot be established. appears while the agent is running, or alarm information appears while the agent is not running, the information might be old. Click Refresh to update the information to the latest information, and then check whether the symptom has disappeared.

Contents area

Displays a list of alarms in the alarm table that is bound to (associated with) the selected monitoring agent. If the functionality for binding multiple alarm tables is enabled, statuses of multiple alarm tables are displayed. Clicking an alarm table name displays or hides the list of alarms in the alarm table.

If the functionality for binding multiple alarm tables is disabled, the status of one alarm table is displayed.

Health check status

Displays a message indicating the status of the health check.

For details about the health check status, see the chapter that explains error detection of Performance Management in the JP1/Performance Management User's Guide.

Icons used for displaying status of an alarm table

To the left of an alarm table name, an icon is displayed, which indicates the highest severity level among the alarms in that alarm table. Clicking the icon displays or hides the list of alarms in the alarm table.

: Indicates that the alarm table is expanded (the definition is displayed).
: Indicates that the alarm table is closed (the definition is not displayed).
(green): Indicates a normal status.
(yellow): Indicates a warning status.
(red): Indicates an abnormal status.
: Indicates a monitoring suspended status.

The table below lists the relationship between the status of the alarm table and the status of alarms. This example assumes that the alarm table has alarm A and alarm B. Icons inside the table shows the status of the alarm table. For example, if the status of alarm A is [Figure] (red: Abnormal) and the status of alarm B is (green: Normal), the status of the alarm table is indicated as (red: Abnormal), which is the higher severity status between alarm A and alarm B.

Table 1‒14: Relationship between the status of the alarm table and the status of alarms
Status of alarm A	Status of alarm B
Status of alarm A	(red)	(yellow)	(green)	(gray)	(always report an alarm)
(red)	(red)	(red)	(red)	(red)	(red)
(yellow)	(red)	(yellow)	(yellow)	(yellow)	(yellow)
(green)	(red)	(yellow)	(green)	(green)	(green)
(gray)	(red)	(yellow)	(green)	(green)	(green)
(always report an alarm)	(red)	(yellow)	(green)	(green)	(green)

Report icons

A report icon (such as [Figure] , depending on the PFM - Agent or PFM - RM in use) is displayed to the left of an alarm icon with which a report is associated. Clicking this icon opens a related report as a new window.

Alarm icons

An alarm icon is displayed to the left of each alarm name. The color of the icon indicates the alarm's status, as follows:

(gray): Indicates an inactive status.
(green): Indicates a normal status.
(yellow): Indicates a warning status.
(red): Indicates an abnormal status.
^#: Indicates that this alarm is set to always report an alarm.
: Indicates a monitoring suspended status.

#: This icon can be displayed only if Always notify was selected in the alarm definition.

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