⚡High Availability Alarms

Leverage Redundant Event Pipelines

Overview

RMF Alarms are built to support high-availability event detection by gathering and processing events from multiple event pipelines. This delivers event server failover for supported event types. If one event pipeline can't generate an alarm due to a hardware issue or network interruption, the system still processes events from the backup pipeline and displays them as XProtect Alarms on the operator's dashboard. The service also filters out duplicate events, so only one alarm is generated when both event pipelines are working normally.

The RMF Alarm Service is supported only for Single Site, and Federated redundancy architectures. With Independent architectures, the Client does not have credentials for both sites at once. Therefore, although events can be retrieved from both sites, they cannot be sent to the client from the site where the client is not logged in.

Installation

The RMF alarm functionality is deployed alongside other components, depending on the redundancy architecture in place. See the section: What to Install Where.

Components

The feature consists of two components. Visit each section to learn more.

1

Service

Alarm Service

2

Configuration UI

Alarm Configuration