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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. Depending on how it is configured, an alarm can alert an operator to
the occurrence of an event, a change in status, or a specific parameter value (text).
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 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.
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 Miranda 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 Creating Virtual Alarms on page 145.
In addition, as of version 6.40 of the Kaleido-X software, it is possible to assign elements
from any GSM alarm browser to alarm levels in the sources table, directly, by a drag-and-
drop operation (see
Configuring Logical Sources Based on External Alarm Providers, on
page 167).
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