Alarm Banner

An alarm banner is a reduced version of the active alarms page that displays three alarms. If you use a starter project as the foundation of your Plant SCADA project, the alarm banner is displayed at the top of the runtime view for the system.

This means the alarm banner appears as a permanent feature of the runtime interface, allowing an operator to be alerted to alarm conditions even if an alarm page is not displayed.

The alarm banner also includes alarm counts that summarize the current activity for a number of alarm types including active alarms, unacknowledged alarms and disabled alarms. Alarm counts are created using the Cicode function AlarmCount.

The Alarm Banner allows an operator to perform the following actions at runtime:

• Acknowledge an alarm

• Disable an alarm

• Display information about an alarm.

For more information, see Action Alarms at Runtime.

See Also

Alarm Pages

Alarm Equipment Tree