The Fault Summary area is in the upper-left corner of the UCSM GUI, at the top of the navigation pane. This area displays a summary of all the faults that have occurred in the Cisco UCS infrastructure.

Faults are represented by different-colored icons. The total number of specific faults is indicated by a small number below each fault icon. If you click on a fault icon in the Fault Summary area, Cisco UCSM GUI changes the view to the Faults, Events and Audit Log tab, under the Admin tab, and displays all such similar faults.

The following is a list of the alarms displayed in the Fault Summary area:

• Critical alarm: This is displayed by the red-colored icon; this alarm indicates that there is a critical fault with a very high probability of services getting disrupted. This requires immediate user intervention for the fix.
• Major alarm: This is displayed by the orange-colored icon; this alarm indicates that there is a fault issue that may affect some services. It also requires immediate user action.
• Minor alarm: This is displayed by the yellow-colored icon; this alarm indicates that there is a minor fault that may partially affect some services. Immediate user action is recommended, before the services get adversely affected.
• Warning message: This is displayed by the blue-colored icon; this alarm that indicates there is a minor fault that may affect any of the services. It should be corrected as soon as possible.