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Alarms

Alarms are reports of critical events that should be monitored. Some triggers of alarms are:

• A configuration problem—For example, a DSA fails to start because it has the same listen address as one already running.
• A usage problem—For example, sending a DAP request to an LDAP port.
• A system problem—For example, running out of memory or disk space.

Unlike trace and log messages, alarm messages cannot be suppressed:

• Alarm messages are always written to the alarm log (which cannot be closed).
• When a console is open, alarm messages are sent to it.
• When an SNMP log is open, an SNMP trap is raised for every alarm.