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Monitoring Alarms

As you know, when NerveCenter detects a condition it is looking for, it creates an alarm instance that tracks that condition. For instance, if your site uses the behavior model that includes the alarm ifLoad, NerveCenter monitors network traffic on a set of interfaces. If it detects a traffic level above a certain threshold, it creates an alarm instance to track that condition.

Both the NerveCenter Web Client and the NerveCenter Client feature interfaces that enable you to monitor these alarm instances. This chapter discusses:

• The interfaces that these clients provide for monitoring alarm instances
• How to interpret the information these interfaces present
• How to examine an alarm instance's history

This informat ion is presented in the following sections:

Section	Description
Viewing Alarm Information	Explains how to use the NerveCenter Web Client and the NerveCenter Client to track current alarm instances.
Interpreting Alarm-Instance Information	Explains how to use the NerveCenter Client to obtain additional information about the cause of an alarm transition.
Viewing an Alarm Instance's History	Explains how to use the NerveCenter Web Client or the NerveCenter Client to view an alarm instance's history.
Reading Logged Data	Explains how to read a log entry. This information is important if the alarm transition you're interested in has associated with it a Log to File or EventLog action.