Manual

Operating Characteristics 3-29
3.5.3 Enable/Disable
The Host can use S5F3 (Enable/Disable Alarms) to control which alarms the GES-
1993 should report. Using S5F3, the Host can specify for each ALID whether the
Equipment should report that alarm when it occurs. When an alarm transition
occurs, if that ALID is enabled the Equipment will send an alarm report message to
the Host. If the ALID is disabled, the Equipment will not send the alarm message.
The Host can use S2F37 to enable or disable the CEIDs associated with these alarm
transitions.
The GES-1993 saves Alarm Enable/Disable settings on a disk file. When the
Equipment powers up, it will restore Alarm Enable/Disable settings to the same
condition they had at power off.
3.5.4 Host Requests Alarm Status
The Host can use S5F5 to request the GES-1993 to report all alarms which exist and
the ON/OFF state for each.
The Host can use S5F7 which is similar, but which causes the Equipment to report
only those alarms (ALIDs) which are Enabled, regardless of whether the alarm is ON
or OFF.
3.5.5 Compatibility
The GES-1993 supports the following Alarm Report message formats for older host
implementations (see "1.6.3 Gem Configuration" on page 1-12).
S5F71/S5F72
S5F73/S5F74