Glossary Of Terms

Terms and definitions used by REM.

Clear Event

An event indicating that a previous alarm has been resolved and that the condition that caused it is no longer present.

Commission

Adding a device to the topology does not automatically cause it to be monitored and alarmed on. Devices may be deployed in the Estate at a different time, earlier or later, to when they are added to REM ES's understanding of the Estate. Thus a device can be in either a Commissioned or Decommissioned state. Commissioned devices are alarmed on and it is checked that they are alive. Decommissioned devices are known about, but neither monitored for health nor alarmed on - any readings they send are ignored. This allows a large set of devices to be configured fully before they are put live, ie commissioned, and allows devices to be decommissioned for hardware swaps, or to deal with known problems such as network maintenance, without producing unwanted alarms.See also: Decommission, Device, Topology