Summarized on October 22, 2026
Cisco Intersight provides fault monitoring capabilities to track and manage alarms for all managed targets [1]. Alarms are categorized by severity — Critical (requires immediate corrective action), Warning (potential service-affecting fault requiring diagnosis), and Informational (non-critical status notifications) — and can be viewed from the Alarms icon, which displays the total count of Critical and Warning alarms. Clicking an individual alarm reveals details such as fault code, source type and name, affected component, and a description of the fault.
Acknowledging an alarm moves it from the Active tab to the Acknowledged tab, muting the affected object's health impact without changing the alarm's severity or reflecting any change at the endpoint. Note that Account Administrator privileges are required to acknowledge or unacknowledge alarms. You can acknowledge alarms using any of the following methods:
- From the Alarms drawer: click the Alarms icon, then click the Acknowledge icon (crossed bell icon).
- From the Alarms page: select one or more alarms and click the Acknowledge icon, or use the ellipsis menu (…) on the far right and select Acknowledge.
- From the Servers > General tab: click the acknowledge icon for the alarm under the Events > Alarms panel.
To reverse the action, you can unacknowledge an alarm from the Acknowledged tab, which returns it to the Active alarms list. Audit details — including the date, time, and user who acknowledged or unacknowledged an alarm — are accessible via Settings > Audit Logs or directly from the Acknowledged tab.