Network fault manager for maintaining alarm conditions

A machine-based system for displaying alarm data, wherein the system comprises one or more processors configured to:

• generate an alarm data table having multiple columns corresponding to different alarm data fields and multiple rows corresponding to different alarms, wherein a primary key associated with the alarm data table includes a subset of the different alarm data fields in the multiple columns that uniquely represent the different alarms in the multiple rows;
• remove one or more of the different alarm data fields in the subset of the different alarm data fields from the primary key, wherein the primary key with the one or more alarm data fields removed therefrom causes a plurality of the multiple rows in the alarm data table to non-uniquely represent the different alarms in the plurality of the multiple rows;
• collapse the alarm data table with the one or more alarm data fields removed from the primary key, wherein the collapsed alarm data table combines the different alarms non-uniquely represented in the plurality of the multiple rows into one combined row that uniquely represents the different alarms in the plurality of the multiple rows;
• and
• render the collapsed alarm data table with the one combined row replacing the plurality of the multiple rows.

A machine-based system for displaying alarm data, comprising:

• one or more processors configured to:
• execute an exception engine to generate an alarm data table having multiple columns corresponding to different alarm data fields and multiple rows corresponding to different alarms, wherein a primary key associated with the alarm data table includes a subset of the different alarm data fields in the multiple columns that uniquely represent the different alarms in the multiple rows;
• execute an exception browser to remove one or more of the different alarm data fields in the subset of the different alarm data fields from the primary key, wherein the primary key with the one or more alarm data fields removed therefrom causes a plurality of the multiple rows in the alarm data table to non-uniquely represent the different alarms in the plurality of the multiple rows;
• and
• execute the exception browser to collapse the alarm data table with the one or more alarm data fields removed from the primary key, wherein the collapsed alarm data table combines the different alarms non-uniquely represented in the plurality of the multiple rows into one combined row that uniquely represents the different alarms in the plurality of the multiple rows;
• and
• a display device configured to render the collapsed alarm data table with the one combined row replacing the plurality of the multiple rows.