User Guide

Chapter 8 Main View
Object State View
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• Display Simple Events - Checking this box includes Simple Events in the
display. Simple Events are informational messages that do not have the
concept of raise and clear so they are not part of any Alarm Object.
• Properties - This menu selection applies to the currently selected Event and
has the same effect as double clicking on an Event. This results in the display
of the Alarm Details dialog as described in Showing Alarm Details, page 8-8.
Depending on the state of the Alarm Object that the selected Event is part of, not
all of these menu items will be enabled.
Context Menu
When you right click on an Event, a context menu appears with the following
items:
• Properties
• View Options
Object State View
The Object State View is a view that is almost identical in format to the Alarm
Details View described in Alarm Details View, page 8-4. The primary difference
is that it displays only the current object (Alarm) state of all Listener objects for
the selected node subject to the filtering constraints applied.
You can switch to the Object State View by selecting View > Object State, or the
equivalent Toolbar button.
One difference that may be quickly seen in the Object State View is that Listener
objects not associated with real Alarm objects may be seen. That is, Listener
maintains the current state of all known objects. Many of these states represent an