Handling Alarms

Alarms are classified with three levels of severity: minor, major, and critical. The severity of an alarm is inherited from the definition  of the event that triggered the alarm.

Alarms are automatically removed when the events that triggered them are resolved. In many cases, automatic recovery features handle and resolve events. Occasionally, user intervention may be required to resolve the issue. 

When one or more alarms are present, an indicator shows the number of alarms present:

To see a summary of alarms, classified by severity, click the alarm indicator:

To read the alarm messages in more detail, open the Alarms page:

If you've seen the alarm messages and you want to hide them from view, you can hide all the current alarms from view by clicking the Acknowledge all button (). The alarms remain visible to the root and support users.