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eDMSAPI Inbound 103

• Alarm Description

The Alarm Description refers to the eKERNEL_Alarm table, which

contains all the properties that are associated with that specific alarm,

such as Priority, ringing time of an extension, the repeat interval time,

and so on.

• Message

This is the actual message that is transferred to the device.

• Remove After: *SENT, *RESET, *CALCULATE

This is described in “SET/RESET structure” (page 108).

Alarm handling is shown in Figure 23 "Alarm handling" (page 103), which

illustrates an input program that provides the input parameters.

Figure 23

Alarm handling

Note: These input parameters can come from external sources (for

example, eCAP or eAPI) or partly from configuration tables.

Detailed explanation of the five parameters

• Group

The input program provides a Group name to which the alarm must

be sent. This Group name must be defined in the eKERNEL_GROUP

table. From this eKERNEL_GROUP table a reference is made to

the eKERNEL_MEMBER table. Here, the members in the group

are defined. These members are already the actual devices to

which the alarm must be sent. Therefore, the Group name defines

to which devices the alarm is sent; the Group name is needed to

connect the input program with the output devices. In fact, the tables

eKERNEL_GROUP and eKERNEL_MEMBER in the configuration

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