Specifications

8 – Configuring Points
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Configuring the Precedence of Alarms in the Alarm Line
The sub-priority defined for each alarm determines which alarm takes
precedence appears in the alarm line of a Station display. The alarms that appear
in the alarm line are sorted as follows:
1 Unacknowledged
2 Highest priority
3 Highest sub-priority
4 Newest/oldest
The default setting is “newest”, but you can set your preference on the
System Wide Configuration display
5 The order in which they appear on the alarm summary
For example, with alarm precedence set to “newest,” an alarm line would show
the following alarms in the following order:
10:18 unacknowledged, urgent, sub-priority 13
10:19 unacknowledged, urgent, sub-priority 13
10:20 unacknowledged, urgent, sub-priority 11
10:30 unacknowledged, low, sub-priority 15
10:30 unacknowledged, low, sub-priority 12
10:31 acknowledged, urgent, sub-priority 15
Filtering Alarms in the Alarm Summary
The Alarm Summary on a Station is used for viewing all the current and
unacknowledged alarms for a Station.
To call up the Alarm Summary, do one of the following:
•Click the Alarm button on the tool bar
•Press <F3>
•Click Alarms on the System Main Menu display
• Select View
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Alarms on the System menu bar
For each alarm, the display contains a line of information showing details of the
alarm, such as the time, point ID, alarm type, priority, whether or not it has been
acknowledged, and so on. (For a more detailed description of this display, refer
to the Operators Guide.)
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