Overview
As each alarm item must belong to a group, the settings pertaining to the set of alarm items are made here and applied to all items belonging to the same group.
There are three available groups by default, but the user can create as many as necessary.
A Group defines several general characteristics of the alarm, such as:
Whether user acknowledgment is required.
Whether it will have sound.
Minimum time for the condition to trigger the alarm.
Type of notification.
The Alarms Groups properties allow users to define and manage collective behaviors of alarm items bundled into specific groups. Each group can have unique characteristics, such as whether acknowledgments are required, how they're visually or audibly represented, and the notification methods employed. The properties also facilitate categorization and provide metadata to track group modifications.
Alarms Groups Properties | |
Name | Name of the alarm group. |
AckRequired | Acknowledgment necessity status. If an alarm goes off, it remains active until acknowledged by the user, even if operating conditions return to normal. |
ActiveTimeDeadband | Duration within which active alarms are ignored. |
AckTimeout | Timeout period for acknowledgment. |
AutoAckTime | Automatic acknowledgment time setting. |
Sound | Sound alert linked to the group. When running a Rich Client, if the application has an alarm window and an alarm goes off, this client will play the configured sound until the alarm is acknowledged. |
Show | Display status of alarms from this group. |
LogEvents | Logging status for group events. |
Colors | Color codes associated with alarms in the group. |
NotificationMethod | Method used for sending notifications. For custom applications, there is a way to call a Class method from the Script module to perform any automatic process like sending emails, SMS or anything that can be programmable |
Category | Category designation for the group. |
LockState | Current lock status of the group. |
LockOwner | User or system that locked the group. |
DateModified | Date the group was last modified. |
DateCreated | Date the group was created. |
XRefInfo | Cross-reference information for the group. |
Description | Detailed description of the alarm group. |
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