Status indicators and alarms located inside the computer room and its associated plant rooms are mimicked inside the operators’ area. See Computer Rooms, or Server/Telecoms to find out more about the alarms.

Where control staff are not always inside either the machine room or bridge/control room, an alarm message can be transmitted to a pager, mobile telephone or the like.

Whilst some equipment, such as the UPS, might be remotely monitored, the operations facility still needs to receive any alarm message from that equipment.

Bespoke indicator panels are usually constructed to gather together all the services alarms together.

Software is also available to similarly collect services status information and display or transmit it as required.