Record alarms into an alarm database

The InTouch Distributed Alarm system includes the Alarm DB Logger utility that logs alarms and events to the alarm database.

Alarm DB Logger is an alarm consumer. You configure it with one or more queries to select alarms from InTouch alarm providers. The alarms selected by the queries are stored in a transient memory cache, called the Smart Cache. The Alarm DB Logger writes the contents of the Smart Cache to the alarm database as alarm and event records at a periodic interval.

The Alarm DB Logger can auto-reconnect. When the connection to the database is lost, the logger checks for the database connection at regular intervals. Logging resumes when the connection to the alarm database is re-established.

The Alarm DB Logger reports all errors whether running as a service or a normal application to the Logger.