Alarms

• Alarms are special events that send notifications during situations requiring attention

• Addresses incidents that require manual intervention

• For example,a set of jobs could be dependent on the arrival of a file and if the file is long overdue.It is important that someone investiage the situation,make a decision and resolve the problem.

• Aspects of alarms include but is not limited to:-
o Alarms are informational only.Any action to be taken due to a problem is intiated by a separate action event.
o Alarms are system messages about a detected problem
o Alarms are sent through the system as an event