Description: This object of type RecognitionState states whether or not the alarm has been recognized. Together with aimosAlarmListClearReason these objects are the only writeable values of this table.

Recognition is used to indicate an 'I have seen the alarm and will take care about it'. It is available via SNMP as well as via the AIMOS_Visu's Supervision page.

Recognition by means of SNMP will be done by setting this value to recognized(2). Due to the fact that alarms are moved from aimosAlarmListTable to aimosAlarmLogTable as soon as they are both cleared and acknowledged aimosAlarmLogRecognitionState provides means to recognize cleared alarms; it is the only writeable alarm log object.

A SET request with unrecognized(1) (i.e. 'Unrecognition') is an invalid operation and will be rejected by the SNMP Agent.

For each alarm recognition the SNMP Agent sends a aimosAlarmRecognized trap to SNMP Managers having aimosPhoneBookRecognitionTraps set to true.

On the other hand the similar sounding term 'acknowledgement' is pertaining to the SNMP protocol: it provides means for the SNMP manager to acknowledge trap receipt. Please note: in case both the acknowledgement feature and the recognition-traps-feature are active, even the recognition traps have to be acknowledged.