Situation Event Indicators
When you see a small colored icon overlay the Navigator icons, you are seeing an event indicator . An event indicator is displayed when a situation (a test of certain conditions) running on a system becomes true.
These indicators alert you that conditions have changed and need attention.
Event indicators can be, from highest severity to lowest. As you move up the Navigator
hierarchy, multiple events are consolidated to show only the indicator for the event
with the highest severity. Go to the lowest level of the hierarchy to see individual
event indicators over attribute groups with values that have met situation
definitions.
Move the mouse pointer over an indicator to open a flyover listing of the
situations that are true for the Navigator item and any branching items. This flyover
list might also show a status icon on the right:
| Indicator | Meaning |
|---|---|
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Fatal |
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Critical |
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Minor |
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Warning |
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Harmless |
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Informational |
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Unknown |
Acknowledged- The situation event has been acknowledged.
Expired- The acknowledgement has expired and the situation is still true.
Reopened- The acknowledgement was canceled before it had expired and the situation is still true.
Stopped- The situation has been stopped.
Error- The situation is not functioning properly.
Status Unknown- The monitoring server detects that an agent is offline. The agent might have been taken offline intentionally, there might be a communication problem, or the agent or the system it is running on might have stopped or be failing. The situation flyover listing on this icon shows *STATUS_UNKNOWN, which is not actually a situation, but the notation for a problem on the managed system.