Grass Valley iControl V.6.02 - Manual (Page 327)

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Operational Modes for Maintenance Purposes
As discussed in the section on Alarm Modes, operational modes allow you to suppress alarms
so that operators are not distracted unnecessarily. It is possible, however, to set the view in
iC Navigator and iC Web so that, even if alarms are in an operational mode, their actual status
is displayed. We refer to this as the application’s operational mode.
In a typical scenario, a technician wanting to make repairs on a device being monitored would
manually enable the In maintenance operational mode for the corresponding alarms (to
prevent operators from seeing a sudden flood of alarms on their iC Web pages). The
technician could then start a separate iControl session, where he could set the operational
mode of the iControl application (e.g. iC Web) to reveal the actual status of these alarms. With
the repairs completed, the technician would then be able to verify that these alarms had
returned to normal status before manually taking them out of the In maintenance operational
mode.
Once a technician has configured iControl to filter alarms based on their operational modes,
alarms are selectively displayed according to the following system behaviors:
System Behaviors After Configuring the Display Settings of Alarms
GSM Alarm Browser Behaviors After Configuring Display Setting of Alarms
In the GSM Alarm Browser, the following behaviors occur:
See also
For more information, see:
• "Configuring iControl Web to View Alarms with Specific Operational Modes" on page 319
• "Configuring iC Navigator to View Alarms with Specific Operational Modes" on page 320
IMPORTANT: If an operational mode view in iC Navigator is not specified and you turn on the
Offline or In Maintenance operational modes for a specific incident in Incident
Log Viewer, this incident is immediately hidden in Incident Log Viewer.
Scenario Alarm icon color Alarm text color
Scenario 1:
• iControl is configured to display Offline alarms
• Alarm operational mode is Online
• Alarm status is one of Critical, Major, or Minor
Bright color White
Scenario 2:
• iControl is configured to display Offline alarms
• Alarm operational mode is Offline
• Alarm status is one of Critical, Major, or Minor
Bright color Orange