Specifications

Advanced Point Configuration
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Point Alarm Enabling/Disabling
When you are configuring a point, you can disable its alarms in Quick Builder.
(see “Configuring Alarms for Points” on page 155).
Server-Wide Alarms
You can temporarily disable all alarms for your system by deselecting the Alarms
enabled server-wide checkbox on the Alarm Processing tab under Alarm & Point
Processing.
By default, Alarms enabled server-wide is selected.
Area Alarms
If you have areas enabled on your system, you can temporarily disable all alarms
for points in a specific area. On the Area Configuration display, deselect the
Enable Alarms checkbox for the required area.
Alarms for Individual Points
To disable or re-enable alarms for an individual point after your system is up and
running, go to the Point Detail — General display for the point. In the Services
group, select or deselect Alarms Enabled.
Configuring Return-to-Normal Alarms
For points with multi-stage alarms, you can inhibit log entries until all stages
return to normal. For example, a point might have two alarm stages, pre-alarm
and alarm. If the point goes into pre-alarm and then returns to normal, the log
entry for the pre-alarm parameter is generated immediately. If the point goes into
pre-alarm and then into alarm, the pre-alarm parameter returns to normal, but the
log entry for pre-alarm return-to-normal is only generated when the alarm
parameter also returns to normal.
To inhibit return-to-normal alarms, select Alarm return-to-normal only on
non-alarm states.
External Alarm Notification
You can use the Alarm & Point Processing — Alarm Processing tab to specify up
to four points to receive alarm notifications and control an external device, such
as a siren, that will attract attention even if no one is logged into a Station.
Notifications are issued according to the priority of the alarm. You can specify an
external alarm notification Point ID and Parameter for Low, High, Urgent, and
Any priority alarms.
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