A warning generated by an event.
Alarms communicate the same information as events. However, alarms are reported in the Alarm Monitor instead of in the Event Browser, and are managed differently than events:
Alarms are generated only for Minor, Major, and Critical events (not Information events).
The first time an event occurs, it generates an alarm that appears in the Alarm Monitor. If the same event continues to occur, a new alarm is not generated. Instead, the original generated alarm is updated with the time and date of the latest occurrence of the event.
Alarms can be cleared from the Alarm Monitor, but the event that generated the alarm is not cleared from the event log or the Event Browser.
To view a list of all events, use the Event Browser.