# Viewing Alarm Indications in the Monitoring (“Grid”) View

When a service in a grid view contains an alarm condition the operator will be visually notified with either flashing text or a flashing background in the alarm severity color. Left clicking the cell with a service will open the detailed Alarm View Window for that service. The Alarm view window provides a means of viewing, acknowledging and correcting alarms that have been logged to the alarm database. Alarms can be arranged by column and filtered by acknowledged, corrected or severity settings. Monitoring Client alarm view window operations are consistent with the standard client as outlined in the “About the Alarm View” section.

- Clicking the Alarm View button on the toolbar will open the split pane and display the alarm view for the item that is currently highlighted in the service tree view.

#### Alarm View Window Sliding Panel Option

When an alarm view window is opened for a service a sliding panel will expand to show the alarm view window to the operator. This sliding panel can be configured to split horizontally or vertically. To set how the sliding panel operates select "Grid" from the menu bar then "Grid/Alarm Split" and check either "Split Horizontal" or "Split Vertical".

- Left clicking more than one service cell will open multiple alarm view windows in the split pane, allowing operators to view multiple service alarm views at one time. If all alarm view windows are closed the sliding pane will collapse allowing the grid display to use the maximum viewable area once again.

After a grid has been setup and services to monitor have been added to grid locations the Monitoring Client is ready to monitor alarms on the particular services included in the grids. When an alarm condition occurs for a product included in a service, its corresponding grid location will flash either the text or background of the cell with the alarm condition color, according to the “Rules of Broadcast” outlined in “Alarm Indication”.

- When a grid contains an alarm condition its corresponding grid selection button along the bottom of the active display area will also flash providing the operator with an indication that an alarm has occurred on a grid even though it is currently not displayed in the active grid display area.

#### Alarm Indicator Select

When an alarm occurs for a particular grid location the cell in that location will alert the operator by either flashing the cell’s text color or background color according to the Alarm Indicator Selection. To change which method the grid display will use to indicate alarm conditions select "Grid" from the menu bar then select "Indicator Select" and check either the "Flashing Text" or "Flashing Background" option.