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Configuring Alarms
Your Kaleido-X system can help you monitor alarm conditions efficiently. This section
describes how to configure alarm detection and alarm sharing parameters for your system.
This configuration is made in XEdit.
Key Concepts
Alarm
An alarm is a report on a single, defined condition (generated by a device or service) within
a multiviewer system. A multiviewer analyses the signals that pass through it, and can
detect and flag problems by raising alarms. Each alarm can be individually configured. Most
alarm definitions specify detection thresholds, a set duration, and a clear duration, in order
to exclude transient events. See
In XEdit, alarms generated by the current multiviewer are displayed in the System list and
you can review their status in real time when XEdit is connected to the multiviewer in
online mode. You can manage additional alarms, including health monitoring alarms, or
alarms generated by external devices, by using an alarm browser such as iControl’s GSM
alarm browser or the alarm browser pane in XEdit’s Build Virtual Alarm window (see
As part of the alarm calibration process, you can specify that an alarm, when triggered, be
sent as an SNMP trap. See
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
General Status Manager (GSM)
The general status manager (GSM) is the service responsible for central management of all
alarm conditions within a monitoring and control system. Every Kaleido multiviewer has a
GSM and can be configured to share GSM information with other multiviewers and iControl
systems. For example:
• Display alarm status information from Densité cards on the monitor wall.
• Display alarms detected within a Kaleido-X system on an iControl Web page.
• Display EdgeVision alarms along with the stream coming from the EdgeVision on a
Kaleido-IP multiviewer.
• Display alarm status information in XEdit (online mode).
• Create virtual alarms that combine a number of alarm statuses, not only within a single
system, but also from different devices within multiple Kaleido-X and iControl systems.
See