Grass Valley iControl Solo v.6.00 - Manual (Page 26)

Using iControl Solo
Alarm Status
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description missing from slot. Devices are sorted by the name you typed when you
added a Densité Communicator service, and by the number of the serial port where an
Imaging frame is connected.
• Flat view shows all devices in alphabetical order without any grouping.
Alarm Status
The current status of an alarm determines the color of any on-screen object associated with
that alarm: the LED-like icon to the left of a device or service label, an enclosing folder, etc.
Each possible alarm status is represented by a color. Alarm statuses are dynamically updated.
iControl Solo implements an industry standard
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color code definition for all alarms. The
following table describes the color scheme used by iControl Solo to display alarm statuses,
and how they map to the ITU-TX.733 Recommendation:
Reference Configuration
The reference configuration is a feature of iControl Solo that allows you to keep track of
important cards, or groups of cards. If a card is removed from a slot, the default behavior in
iControl Solo is for the card to disappear from the list in the Logical and Global views. In the
1. Default alarm severities in iControl Solo are compliant with the intent of ITU-T Recommendation X.733, Information
Technology – Open Systems Interconnection – Systems Management – Part 4: Alarm Reporting Function
Color Status ITU-T X.733 Description
White Pending — Alarm exists but has not yet been reported. iControl Solo is waiting for the
hardware or driver to update the alarm. White is the default status for a new alarm,
before its current status is known. This status should be replaced very quickly,
though it might persist as the result of a slow network connection. If a service is
stopped, then all alarms originating from this service will revert to pending status.
Green Normal Cleared The device, service, or signal is operating within allowable parameters.
Yellow Minor Minor/Warning Warning that an error of low importance has occurred.
Orange Major Major Warning that an error of intermediate importance has occurred.
Red Critical Critical Warning that an error of critical importance has occurred.
Gray Unknown Indeterminate Failure to get the status of an alarm provider, even though the source device has
been detected. This could happen, for example, as the result of (1) a lost network
connection, or (2) a loss of signal that would trigger a critical alarm for signal
presence but leave all other related alarms in an unknown status (e.g. the freeze or
black status is unknown if a signal is not present).
Blue Non-
existent — A pseudo-status representing an alarm that has been removed (or was never
added). If an alarm provider is removed—for example, if a card is removed from a
frame—the virtual alarm will be unable to detect an alarm status, and will
therefore report the “non-existent” status as blue.
Black Disabled Not supported Alarm exists but has been disabled at the source. Some devices can have certain
alarms disabled on the hardware itself, resulting in these alarms appearing black.