Configuring an Area Object to Save Alarm Counts as Historical Data

An Area object represents a plant area to group objects for modelling and report alarms. You can configure a set of attributes to save the counts of an area’s alarm states to the historian. An Area object contains a set of attributes to save the counts of the following alarm states to the historian:

• Active alarms

• Unacknowledged alarms

• Disabled or silenced alarms

To configure an Area object to store historical data

1. Double-click the Area instance to open it within the Object Editor.

2. Click the General tab to show attributes for area alarm counts that can be saved as historical data.

   

3. Select the check box next to each alarm state counter that you want to save to the historian.

4. Set the attributes for each alarm counter that you select. For more information about assigning values to historical attributes, see Configuring Common Historical Attributes.

5. Save your changes and close the Object Editor.