Status Row Edit: Alarming tab

Enable Email Notification

Select to enable the record for email alarm notification.

For further information on the items in this section, refer to Email Alarm Notification.

Alternate Email Subject

Select if alarms associated with this point are AVEVA Enterprise SCADA-related alarms.

When selected, the subject line of email messages sent to defined recipients comes from the "emailSubject" application record. If the "emailSubject" application record does not exist, the subject line defaults to SCADA Alarm.

When not selected, the subject line comes from the "emailMeaSubject" application record. If the "emailMeaSubject" application record does not exist, the subject line defaults to Measurement Alarm.

For further information, refer to Email Alarm Notification.

Email Alert Group

Enter or select the name of the alertGroup record containing the Controllers and/or Administrators who will receive messages about alarms associated with this point.

Adhoc Email Body Text

(Optional) Enter an additional message to add to the system-generated email message.

Minimum Alarm Severity

Do one of the following:

• Select a Minimum Alert Severity.

  The application sends an email message when an alarm's severity level is equal to, or greater than, the minimum alert severity. No message is sent when an alarm's severity level is below the minimum alert severity.

• Select none to disable this field.

  Note: The system excludes return-to-normal alarms from the minimum alert severity filter.

Return to Normal Alarms

Select to generate an email message in the event of a Return-to-Normal alarm.

Enable COS Notification

Select to generate an email message in the event of a change of state.

Abnormal State Alarms

Select to generate an email message in the event of an Abnormal State alarm.

Sustain COS Alarms

Select the checkbox to allow alarms to remain in the Alarm Summary window in easy eXtended Operator Station (ezXOS) as long as the point remains in the abnormal state. The alarm beeping stops when the Controller acknowledges the alarms, but they are only removed from the window when the point returns to the normal state.

If the Sustain COS Alarms checkbox is cleared, alarms disappear from the Alarm Summary window as soon as they are acknowledged.

Enable Realarm (0-255 mins)

Enter the number of minutes after which an acknowledged alarm should re-alarm.

Note: An entry of 0 disables the Re-Alarming functionality.

For further information, refer to Re-Alarming.

Maximum period of time (min)

Enter the maximum allowable park time for alarms associated with this point.

For further information, refer to Alarm Parking.

Enable Critical Alarming

Select to enable critical alarming on the status point.

When the point enters an alarm state configured as critical, the application sends a Critical Alarm Active notification to the easy eXtended Operator Station (ezXOS).

For further information, refer to Critical Alarms.

Alarm Suppression

Select to open the Alarm Suppression Table Edit dialog box.

Abnormal States

Select to open the Selected Abnormal States dialog box and set which states should be recognized as abnormal.

Refer to Configure abnormal states for more information.

Safety Related Point

Selecting to flag the point as safety related allows you to easily filter the point in the RealTime database (RTDB) for reports and identify when a system change affects the point.

For further information, refer to Safety points.

Safety Related States

Select to open the Alarm State Setting dialog box.

For further information, refer to Safety points.