You can choose to ignore (or "snooze") Spotlight alarms for individual components that have associated thresholds (usually on the Spotlight home page). You may want to do this when:
A temporary situation causes an expected alarm whose existence in that situation is unimportant.
There is a known problem (a network problem, for example) that is beyond your control; and a continuing reminder of the problem is neither necessary nor desirable.
You can "snooze" alarms only on a component that is already in an alarm state. To do so:
Right-click on the component where the alarm is raised.
From the shortcut menu, choose a Snooze Alarm option a period of time during which alarms on that component will be ignored. (The available period ranges from five minutes to the duration of the current Spotlight session).
Note: For the specified period, the home-page component (and any corresponding alarm log entry) displays the bell symbol shown at left. At the same time, the Snooze Alarm option on the shortcut menu displays a check mark.
To restore an alarm that is currently ignored:
Right-click on a component that displays the bell symbol.
From the shortcut menu, choose the Snooze Alarm option to remove its associated check mark.
You should note the following information about the components whose alarms are being ignored:
Alarms on ALL metrics for the specified component are ignored for the specified period.
Alarms that are being ignored still contribute to the alarm log.
Alarms that are being ignored still trigger historical snapshots, and are shown in the History Browser.
Alarms that are ignored do not fire alarm log rules or take any associated actions.
An entry is written to the Alarm log when a snoozed alarm is "unsnoozed".
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