Creating an Alarm Group

Before you start creating alarm groups, have a plan for how your alarm groups should be organized and what you want the alarm group names to be. Using a consistent group naming convention enforces a logical ordering of groups within the hierarchy.

In the following figure, notice the similarity of names assigned to groups at the same level within the hierarchy.

Also, notice that subordinate group names reference their parent groups by including a portion of the parent name. For example, the third-level alarm group name F1Tk1Lvl references its alarm group parent TnkFrm1 by including the F1 prefix in its group name. Develop a naming convention that suggests the parent-child relationship between alarm groups at different levels within the hierarchy.

Note: While alarm groups do not count as tags for InTouch licensing, they do count as tags in the database. Therefore, the total number of alarm groups plus actual tags cannot exceed the maximum limit set by your InTouch license.

An alarm group name must meet the following requirements:

• A name must be 32 characters or fewer.

• A name must begin with an alphanumeric character (A-Z, a-z, or 0-9).

• A name can contain the following keyboard characters (@, #, $, %, &, -, _, ?, !, \) beginning at the second character position within the name.

• If a name contains a hyphen (-), the name must begin with an alphabetic character.

• A name cannot contain a blank space.

• A name must have at least one alphabetic character.

To create an alarm group

1. On the Home menu, in the Alarms group, click Alarm groups.

   The Alarm group list window appears.

   

2. Click the + icon to Add, or press Alt+A.

   The Add alarm group dialog box appears.

   

3. In the Group Name box, type a name for the new alarm group.

4. In the Comment box, type an optional comment up to 49 characters for the new alarm group.

5. To reassign the alarm group to another parent group:

   1. Select the Parent group name from the list. If this is the first alarm group defined for the InTouch application, the group is automatically assigned to the parent $System group.

   2. Select a new parent group from the list.

6. Click Add.

   The Alarm groups list window displays the new alarm group added to the list.

7. Click Close.