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You can acknowledge an alarm by clicking the symbol under “Ack time”. The symbol will be
replaced by the current time of the Carat server, and the alarm is acknowledged. The alarms
are turned off in the same way.
Alarm exporting
There are two methods that alarms may be brought to attention of external systems: email
forwarding and SNMP.
Alarms and email forwarding
Alarms are sent as plain-text emails with standard formatting easy to be parsed with typical
text-processing tools.
NOTE: Email may be used only for relaying the alarms to the
other messaging system that convert emails to f ex SMS and
messenger formats. 7signal products do not directly provide such
integration.
Email forwarding requires an SMTP server to be defined. There may be numerous recipients
that shall receive the alarms