Using Aggregated Alarm Information

Alarm aggregation lets you see all the active alarms on a containing object, such as an area object, as well as all the active alarms on its contained objects. This provides an efficient way at run time to identify if there are any active alarms (in the InAlarm state), and the location and status of alarms, for example, unacknowledged and unacknowledged - return to normal. This makes it possible to follow a trail from one level to the next to find the underlying cause of a complex object’s alarms.

To obtain aggregated alarm severity status information:

1. Map alarm severity levels to priority ranges. For more information, see Configuring Alarm Historization, Mapping, and Shelving Priority Ranges.

2. Configure alarms on objects. For more information, see Configuring Alarms.

3. Enable alarm aggregation by Area. For more information, see Configuring Alarm State Aggregation

4. View aggregated alarm status information by means of run-time clients and applications. For more information, see Monitoring Alarm State Information at Run Time.