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, Fatal Fatal, Critical, Minor Minor, Warning Warning, Harmless, Informational, or Unknown Unknown. 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:

Acknowledged	The situation event has been acknowledged.
Expired	The acknowledgment has expired and the situation is still true.
Reopened	The acknowledgment 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.