General alarm suppression

The following alarm suppression can be configured for Advanced Database Editor (ADE) records:

• Parent control alarm suppression

• Timed and Indefinite alarm suppression

• Transient alarm suppression

• Test mode alarm suppression

• Alarm disturbance mode

• Inhibiting the regeneration of abnormal alarms after RealTime failover, cold start, or communication outage (status and multistate records)

  Note: Alarm suppression applies to current value alarms such as data krunching alarms for status and multistate points, and hi/lo alarm states for analog, rate, and flowTotalConfig points. It does not apply to rate of change current value alarms for analog, rate, or flowTotalConfig points, nor does it block other type of alarms (such as command failure alarms) for any table.