The highest severity of all currently active alarms in a network element is indicated by its color. There are five different severities, with the color green showing a no alarm situation in legacy style.

With the new map style, a no alarm situation is indicated with a non-colored node or NE.

Additionally three flags show a «Polling stopped» situation, a «NE unmanageable» situation and the highest severity of all unacknowledged alarms. With the new map style, the flags have a slightly different graphical design; e.g. the highest severity of all unacknowledged alarms is shown with a specific symbol and color. The figure below shows examples of NE alarm flags for the severities “None”, “Warning”, “Minor”, “Major”, and “Critical”.

The map style and the alarm colors can be determined in the global preferences (see Options).