A computer-implemented method for detecting alarm conditions, the method
involving receiving at a first time a trigger notification describing a
monitored occurrence on a network; setting a redundancy window to begin
at the first time and to end at an expiration time; designating a first
alarm condition to represent the trigger notification; receiving a second
notification at a second time after the first time, the second
notification describing the monitored occurrence; and determining whether
a second alarm condition exists by testing whether the second time is
within the redundancy window.