• The alarm console application helps to visualize and manage all alarms received by the cockpit.
• Those alarms are received via the alarm API and generated by monitoring agents.
• Alarms parameters and life cycle can be visualized and updated through the console.
• The console will help to have a perfect view of all current problems, how they evolve and how they are being addressed.

• An alarm is the description of a particular problem. It is represented by the following parameters:

Alarm states:

• This widget displays the total number of current alarms, split by severities
• It gives is a quick way to see the current number of alarms and its evolution

• Shows the current active alarms in a table
• You can order the alarms by most of their parameters
• The tale allows to sort on multiple columns at once, just click on the column header to initiate the sort
  • For example, you can sort alarms per severity first, then timestamp
  • Click several times on table header to switch from ascending to descending
• Each row has an edit button allowing to open the alarm details menu, showing more information.
• A quick text filter allows to filter the currently displayed alarms based on text entry.
• To right click on any alarm opens a contextual menu allowing to explicitly filter on a given parameter (include or exclude). See filter section for more details

• You can define filters to display specific alarms
• Those filters can be created by two ways:
  • Click on the new button to open filter edit menu
  • Use contextual menu (right click) to select alarm parameter values
• Once filter parameters are set, you can save the filter for future use, just give it a name and save.
• Current filtered parameters are displayed in bubbles below the filter select.
• To apply a saved filter, just select it via the select widget and it will be applied directly.

• You can manage your filters with the following actions:

• Contextual menu: Right click on any alarm parameter to display the filter select menu

The alarm filter editor let you filter on the following parameters:

• You can set filter on several parameters
• Don't forget to click on Include or Exclude to set the filter

From the alarm table, you can open the alarm details view by clicking on the view icon of a given row.
This menu will give a very detailed view of a particular alarm:

• Alarm lifecycle history
• Alarm messages and severity history
• More contextual information about the alarm
• You will also be able to the state of the alarm
• Comments: You can see and add comment to the alarm.
  • Comments are useful to add contextual information to the alarm

• The severity history tab will show an aggregated view of the alarm history accross time
• It will show how many times (count) the alarm was received between each severity transition.
• By example, this can be usefull to visualize flapping alarms