Facility Alarms provide a useful tool for operators to easily track and display the basic status of their equipment facilities.
CLI display (show routines) allows the system operator to easily identify current facility alarm conditions and recently cleared alarms without searching event logs or monitoring various card and port show commands to determine the health of managed objects in the system such as cards and ports.
The 7210 SAS alarm model is based on RFC 3877, Alarm Management Information Base (MIB), (which evolved from the IETF DISMAN drafts).