The Fault management service presents the status of alarms, traps, and notifications received by System Manager and its components, and the other elements that are integrated with the System Manager SAL agent. The Fault management service maps events to alarms and tracks the state of alarms. Using the Fault Management service, you can acknowledge and clear alarms.

The Alarm management service provides a central point for receiving alarms that System Manager and other components generate. The service supports alarm monitoring, acknowledgement, configuration, clearing, and retiring. You can also browse System Manager for historical alarm events.