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Severity Attributes Used by NerveCenter

The severity attributes Name, Group, and Color are used by NerveCenter when it displays information about current alarm instances in the Alarm Summary or Aggregate Alarm Summary window. The figure below shows the correspondence between these attributes and the objects used in the tree view of the Alarm Summary window.

Severity Names, Groups, and Colors

In this figure, there is a severity named Critical, which belongs to the severity group Fault and is associated with the color red. You can add new severities to the existing groups (Fault and Traffic), or add severities that belong to a new group. In the latter case, NerveCenter will create a new folder to represent the new severity group.

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Note    Severity colors are also used in alarm state diagrams to indicate the severity of particular states.

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