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addVANTAGE Pro 6.2 User Guide CHAPTER 4
The Events Viewer
Selecting Nodes
Use the Nodes tab (Figure 47) to select the nodes whose events you want to
display. It is the second tab in the Properties dialog, but you must select a node
before you can select the event types to display alarms for. With addVANTAGE
Pro 6.2, all nodes can issue events.
Figure 47. Events Options Dialog, Nodes Tab
• Click the Add button to display the Nodes Chooser (Figure 48), which you
use to add nodes whose events you want to view. You can select the root or
expand it to select areas.
Figure 48. The Nodes Chooser
• To remove a node from the Events viewer, select it on the Nodes tab and
click the Delete button.
•Use the Also show events from child nodes checkbox to see alarms/events
from nodes belonging to the node you selected.
Another way to create an Events viewer is to select the nodes whose events you
want to see from the Explorer, then right-click and select Show Events. Click
Properties in the viewer to see the dialogs discussed here.
Displaying Event Types
The Event Types tab (Figure 49) displays all of the types of events that can issue
an alarm or event. If the tab is blank, you have not selected any nodes (see
“Selecting Nodes” on page 42).
You can drill down in the list to see that all events are selected by default. If you
do not want a specific event to display in the Events viewer, unselect it in the