in the alarm notifications area on the right side of the Status Bar.When you view the statistics of the network, you may want a tool to alert you some specific statistics or traffic status of the network. The alarm function is the tool.
For your convenience, Capsa provides an Alarm Explorer window to manage alarms, in which you can create, edit and view alarms. You can also get triggered alarm info in the alarm notification area on the right side of the Status Bar. Read Creating Alarms to learn how to create and edit an alarm.
To open the Alarm Explorer window, click in the alarm notifications area on the right side of the Status Bar.
If you want to show the Alarm Explorer window when starting analysis projects, click View tab of the Ribbon section and select Alarm Explorer.
The Alarm Explorer window appears as below.
The toolbar includes six items as follows:
| Item | Description |
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Switches the alarm layout between hierarchical and flat. |
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Opens the Create Alarms dialog box to create a new alarm. |
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Deletes the selected alarm. |
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Only shows triggered alarms. |
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Releases a triggered alarm. |
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Views the properties of the alarm or edit the alarm. |
All created alarms are hierarchically grouped in three types: Security, Performance and Fault. You can double-click an alarm item to open the Edit Alarms dialog box to edit it.
Click an alarm item, and the Status Information panel will display the details of the alarm.
The Status Information pane displays the properties of the selected alarm in detail.
You can click 
to collapse the details.
When an alarm is triggered or dismissed, a pop-up fades in to inform you the alarm information even when the program window is not active.
You can click the link: Click here to view alarms' log to view alarm log (Read Alarm Settings to know how to set alarm logs).
The corresponding alarm bubble on the right side of the Status Bar starts flashing when an alarm was triggered.
The Alarm Notification Area is utilized to display the real-time triggered alarm information. The Alarm Notification Area appears as follows:
You can click the Alarm Explorer icon to open or close the Alarm Explorer window.
The three bubbles represent three alarm types: Security, Performance and Fault.
The numbers following the bubbles represent the number of triggered alarms of every alarm types.
Click the bubbles, and you will get an Alarm Statistics pop-up showing the details of the alarm types as follows:
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