User`s guide

21-0381E v4.7.3
Welcome Report Control Admin
Sys Config Tech-Ref
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Top of the Form
- View: The type of events you are
viewing (global and/or custom events
associated with specific areas;
- Event Types: This allows limiting your
event priority screen to specific
event/alarm topics only;
Buttons at the Bottom of
the Form
- [Add]: When viewing custom events
(i.e., "By Area"), this creates a blank
'row' to allow setting up a new custom
event;
- [Delete]: This allows deleting a custom event
(when viewing "By Area");
- [Customize for Area]: When viewing "System
Wide" events, this allows quickly creating a
custom (area-specific) version of a selected
event;
Columns (Event Criteria)
- Area: This is the area associated with the
specific event (either "All Areas", or a specific
area);
- Custom Filter: This field can be used by
specific operators to limit the messages they will
see in the monitoring window (i.e., only
messages set to specific 'custom filter' values);
- Priority: This affects the sort order in the
monitoring window, and can also be used by
operators to limit the messages they will see in
the monitoring window;
- Resolution Allowed: This determines whether
or not the comment/resolution screen will be
available for each specific event (when working
in the event/monitoring window);
- Instruction: This allows assigning instruction
text to appear in the comment/resolution screen
when an operator is acknowledging a specific
alarm;
Note: To be available here, instructions must be
defined first:
Ref
: Account Information ÖEvent Instruction
Alarm / Event Instructions
Instructions Associated with Specific Sensors
: An
instruction can also be associated with specific
sensors (input points)--which will take precedence
over any instruction selected here.
Ref
: Configuration ÖInput Points
Input Points—Monitored Sensors
- Media: This allows assigning a colour and a
sound to each event/alarm message. Click [...]
to assign a sound and/or colour to an event. (In
the next screen, you can click [
` ] to hear your
selected sound.)
Notes: To be available here, custom sounds
(WAV files) must be activated 1
st
:
Ref
: [Management] ÖSound
Enabling Sounds (to be associated with
event/alarm messages).
By default, your PC's "exclamation" sound will be
associated with alarms that require resolution. This is
set through the Windows control-panel.
Sound Duration
: Sounds to be associated with
specific alarms are played in a repeating pattern. As
such, any sounds lasting longer than 2 seconds will be
truncated (i.e., the first two seconds will be repeated).
- Serial Reporting (v4.4): This allows selecting
specific alarms and events to be transmitted
through the serial reporting feature.
Related Settings: [Management], ÖSerial Reporting.
Software-Based Text Paging (Serial Reporting)
Account Information ÖEvent Priority