The notification life cycle

A notification can be in one of five states. If the Event State column in your Notification Log view is displayed, you can view the event state. The five event states are:
  • UNINITIALIZED — The original event state of a notification.
    The UNINITIALIZED state is not visible in the console because, like any client, the console does not receive uninitialized notifications.
  • ACTIVE — The event state of a notification when an event occurs and the notification informs (notifies) a client of the event.
    When a notification is notified, the event state changes from the current value to ACTIVE. The notification displays in the Global Console unless an administrator sets a notification list filter that prevents it from displaying.
  • SUSPENDED — The event state of a notification when the Global Manager can no longer receive information about an active notification (for example, an agent is not responding).
    In this case, the notification remains active although its event state changes to SUSPENDED and its severity level changes to Unknown (severity=4).
    The SUSPENDED attribute is not applicable when the Broadcast Event State on Restart parameter system default is configured to FALSE. The “Defining System Defaults” section of the
    provides detailed information.
  • WAS_ACTIVE — The event state of a notification when an underlying
    disconnects from a Global Manager (due to a network outage, for example) or a Global Manager is restarted.
    In this case, the notification remains active although its event state changes to WAS_ACTIVE. If the session connection cannot be re-established, the severity level also changes to Unknown (severity=4).
    Once the session connection is re-established and the notification is re-notified, the WAS_ACTIVE state changes back to ACTIVE. If an underlying
    fails to re-notify an active notification, the system clears the event and state of the notification changes from WAS_ACTIVE to INACTIVE.
    The WAS_ACTIVE attribute is not applicable when the Broadcast Event State on Restart parameter system default is configured to FALSE. The “Defining System Defaults” section of the
    provides detailed information.
  • INACTIVE — The event state of a notification when a notification has stopped occurring. When a notification is in the INACTIVE state, it is said to be
    cleared
    .
    The following table summarizes possible event states of a notification and columns that might appear in your console.
Summary of event states
Event State column
Active column
Severity column
ACTIVE
True
Can be severity levels 1–5
SUSPENDED
True
Severity level 4
WAS_ACTIVE
True
Severity level 4
INACTIVE
False
Severity level from when notification was active
The UNINITIALIZED event state is not visible in the console.
Notification severity section includes a description of icons that correspond to severity levels.