System Manual

EkoTek System Installation and Configuration Manual

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Alarms are routed according to the user group of the device raising the alert,

the location of the device when the alarm is raised (given by the zone of the

local repeater), the day-night setting of the system and whether it is an initial

alarm or an escalation of an existing alarm.

By default, no rules are defined and all alarms raised on-system will result in

messages being sent to display devices (and the external pager number) in the

pager group ONE.

The page operates in a number of modes, displaying the current rules table,

allowing new rules to be added and existing rules to be modified and deleted.

Creating alert rules ensures the right device is called at the right time instead of

only sending everything to PG.1.

If any rules have been entered a table is displayed, the top row of which

contains:

User group

Parameters set in the device entry. Groups 1 to 16.

Zone

Parameters set in the device entry. Zones 1 to 16.

Time

The day or night setting of the system. ‘D’=day, ‘N’=night.

Esc

The escalation level of the alarm. ‘R’=raised, ‘N’=normal.

A black square means that a particular group, zone, time of day or escalation

has been included in the rule. The end of the row is a button containing the

name of the pager group that is targeted by the rule. If there are more than 16

rules in the table, the header will be repeated after the last rule.

Edit mapping

Clicking the pager group name button at the end of the row causes the page to

be reloaded with modifiable rules; the selected rule will appear as a shaded row

and in place of the pager group name a ‘Remove’ button will appear. The

checkboxes are preloaded with the current rules settings. Change the rule

settings as required and then click ‘Submit’ to save the amendments.

Note: the EkoTek system can only send one paging message to an external

system as a result of an alarm being raised. If a combination of rules is entered

that would cause more than one message to be sent to an external system a

conflict is detected and the ‘Submit’ entry will be ignored until the conflict is

resolved.