Alarm Parking

The Alarm Parking application allows you to "park" an alarm for a user-defined amount of time. In the Alarm Summary window, a parked alarm changes from a flashing, unacknowledged alarm to a non-flashing, acknowledged alarm. It remains parked until either the user-defined amount of time expires, or the point enters a new alarm state. When the user-defined amount of time expires, AVEVA Enterprise SCADA generates an event.

If the user-defined amount of time expires, and the alarm condition is still present, the application un-parks the alarm and changes it from a non-flashing, acknowledged alarm to a flashing, unacknowledged alarm.

Alarm parking applies only to telemetered database alarms – both persistent and non-persistent. System alarms are excluded.

While the parking and unparking of alarms increases and decreases the acknowledged/ unacknowledged counts for a point, respectively, it has no effect on the point’s alarm count.

Notes: Parking an alarm parks only a single, particular alarm associated with a point. The functionality has no effect on other alarms that may currently exist for the point.

You can only park telemetered points whose maximum park time is greater than zero.