(1) An audible or visual signal at a device, such as a display station or printer, that is used to notify the user that a predefined condition exists.
(2) Any condition that DirectTalk considers worthy of documenting with an error message. Strictly speaking, the term alarm should include only red (immediate attention) and yellow (problem situation) conditions, but it is also used to refer to green (a red or yellow message has been cleared) and white (information) conditions.
(3) For Domino administrators, a document generated in the Statistics database indicating that a server statistic has exceeded a specified threshold. For example, an alarm can notify an administrator if disk space on server drive C drops below 10 percent.