User Manual

Alarm Management
Alarm Indicator
Alarm Viewer
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15.11.1 AlarmAcknowledgement
An alarm can be acknowledged in the following ways:
• right-clicking on the alarm line and selecting Acknowledge
• selecting the alarm line and pressing on the Acknowledge Selected button
• pressing the Acknowledge All button to acknowledge all current alarms
• script actions
Inactive alarms that have been acknowledged can be removed from the list by
pressing the Clear button.
15.11.2 Sorting
Pressing on the column heading in runtime sorts the alarm list by that column.
This pauses the Alarm Viewer.
15.11.3 Filtering
Pressing the Filter button in the Alarm Viewer opens a dialog that allows the user
to enter a filtering profile to control which alarms to display in the alarm list.
Filtering can be made based on any combination of the following conditions:
• Alarm group: The first column in the filter window shows the alarm group
name. ChecktheEnableboxtoshowalarmsfromthegroup.
• Alarm status: Displays alarms with the status corresponding to the checked
status values.
Note:
TheAlarmFilter willreverttothe
defaultsettingsifthe AlarmGroupisrenamed.
15.11.4 Play/PauseButton
The Alarm Viewer window
can be paused from being updated with incoming
alarms using the Play/
Pause button. This allows the operator to inspect and sort
the list without inter
ference from any incoming alarms. The list also pauses when
an alarm is selected.
The alarm list starts updating again when
• the Play button is
pressed
• the operator chan
ges screen and returns to the same screen (or goes to another
screen showing t
he Alarm Viewer)
• after a 5 minute
time-out
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