Alarm provider

An alarm provider:

• Keeps track of alarmable items—that is, items that can transition into an alarmed condition—and provides the Distributed Alarm system with the list of these items, including information on any hierarchical grouping of the items.

• Notifies the Distributed Alarm system when the status of an alarm item changes. Status changes include whether the item is in or out of the alarmed state and whether the most recent alarm has been acknowledged.

• Keeps track of whether an alarm item is disabled.

The InTouch HMI supports external alarm providers, such as QI Analyst, an Application Server Galaxy, and other software built with the Alarm API toolkit. The date/time stamp for these alarm records is provided by the alarm provider, and is not generated by the Distributed Alarm system.