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Chapter 13 Performance Tips
Alarm Objects History for Displays
Figure 13-2 AlarmTracker Options - Display Tab
The value allows you to limit the amount of history shown in the Alarms Details
View, Event Details View and Alarm Bars View. These views will always show
open Alarms, but this setting controls the time history for showing closed Alarms.
For example, a value of 24 for the Time in Hours option means that any Alarms
in the database whose closed times are less than 24 hours ago will be displayed.
Checking Make Same As LGMapper results in the maximum number of Alarms
displayed. You may need to experiment with different settings to get what is best
for you. Selecting too much time history may result in a display that is too
cluttered or make the query times to the remote database slower. Selecting too
little time may not give you the results or granularity that you need.
The advantage of making this number larger is to see more time history of Alarms
in your views. This is most useful in the Alarm Bars view when you can
graphically see an Alarm that is "bouncing." That is, an Alarm that is continually