The Alarm Manager Provides Alarm Viewing, Logging and Annunciation
Alarms are detected in the data stores - most commonly the process database
Alarms are configured into an alarm hierarchy
Logging, annunciation, acknowledgment and collection is configured for each group
All lower levels of the hierarchy inherit the disable status from above
Operator logging tracks alarm disable, alarm acknowledge and silence commands
500 Alarm condition changes per second can be handled on a SPARC IPC
The Channel Access Client provides name resolution,
monitors alarm changes, writes group alarm status