Alarm Pages

The Active Alarms page displays all alarms that are unacknowledged, or acknowledged and still in an alarm state.

The active state of a digital alarm is ON, while the active state of an analog alarm varies, depending on how the alarm is configured. For example, the alarm state could be HIGH, LOW LOW, or so on.

By default, the following columns are displayed:

• Date — the day on which the alarm occurred

• Time — the time at which the alarm occurred

• Tag — the tag associated with the alarm (if applicable)

• Name — the name of the tag associated with the alarm (if applicable)

• State — the current state of the tag associated with the alarm

• User Comment — a comment attached to the alarm at runtime (see Add a Comment to the SOE Page).

You can also include additional columns that display information such as specific alarm property values or quality flags (see Add a Column to an Alarms List).

When an alarm is selected, you can perform the following actions:

• Acknowledge the alarm (see Acknowledge Alarms)

• Disable the alarm (see Disable Alarms)

• Disable for a specified number of hours (see Shelve Alarms)

• Disable until a specified date and time (see Shelve Alarms)

• View Information about the alarm.

The Hardware Alarms page displays a list of any hardware alarms that are unacknowledged, or acknowledged and still in alarm state.

The following columns are displayed:

• Tag — the tag associated with the alarm (if applicable)

• Name — the name of the tag associated with the alarm (if applicable)

• Description — a description of the hardware alarm

• Source — a description of the location where the error originated . For example, it could be the name of a page or a Cicode function.

• Error Details — Additional information that is specific to the error.

When a hardware alarm is selected, you can perform the following actions:

• Acknowledge the alarm (see Acknowledge Alarms).

The Disabled Alarms page displays a list of alarms that are disabled in the system for reasons such as a maintenance shutdown.

By default, the following columns are displayed:

• Date — the day on which the alarm occurred

• Time — the time at which the alarm occurred

• Tag — the tag associated with the alarm (if applicable)

• Name — the name of the tag associated with the alarm (if applicable)

• State — the current state of the tag associated with the alarm

• User Comment — a comment attached to the alarm at runtime (see Add a Comment to the SOE Page).

You can also include additional columns that display information such as specific alarm property values or quality flags (see Add a Column to an Alarms List).

When an alarm is selected, you can perform the following actions:

• Enable the alarm (see Disable Alarms)

• View Information about the alarm.

The Alarm Summary page displays a historical log of alarms that you can use for long term analysis and troubleshooting. It displays the date and time each alarm reached ON state and OFF state.

Note: The alarm summary includes historical data, which means you should manually refresh the page to view the latest events before you analyze the data it includes.

By default, the following columns are displayed:

• Tag — the tag associated with the alarm (if applicable)

• Name — the name of the tag associated with the alarm (if applicable)

• On Date — the day on which the alarm reached an ON state

• On Time — the time at which the alarm reached an ON state

• Off Date — the day on which the alarm reached an OFF state

• Off Time — the time at which the alarm reached an OFF state

• Delta Time — the difference between OFF time and ON time

• Sum State — the state of the tag associated with the alarm when it occurred

• User Comment — a comment attached to the alarm at runtime (see Add a Comment to the SOE Page).

You can also include additional columns that display information such as specific alarm property values or quality flags (see Add a Column to an Alarms List).

When an alarm is selected, you can perform the following actions:

• Acknowledge the alarm (see Acknowledge Alarms)

• Add a Comment

• Disable the alarm (see Disable Alarms)

• Disable for a specified number of hours (see Shelve Alarms)

• Disable until a specified date and time (see Shelve Alarms)

• Enable a disabled alarm (see Enable a Disabled Alarm)

• View Information about the alarm.

The Sequence of Events (SOE) page displays a historical view of all system events that have occurred. In the case of alarms, an event is logged when an alarm changes state, or when an alarm is enabled or disabled.

By default, the following columns are displayed:

• Date — the day on which the event occurred

• Time — the time at which the event occurred

• Tag — the tag associated with the event (if applicable)

• Name — the name of the tag associated with the event (if applicable)

• Message — a message describing the event

• State — the current state of the tag associated with the event

• Classification — the type of event (see Events)

• User Name — the name of the user that initiated the event (including "System")

• User Location — the IP address or computer name of the client computer that generated the event.

You can also include additional columns that display information such as specific alarm property values or quality flags (see Add a Column to an Alarms List).

Note: You can only use the Date, Time and Milliseconds columns to sort the SOE page (see Sort Alarms).

When an event is selected, you can perform the following actions:

• Manually add an event (see Add an Event to the SOE page)

• Add a comment to an event (see Add a Comment to the SOE page)

• View Information about the alarm.