User Guide

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Alarm Management
Overview of Alarm Handling
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Viewer displays details of the point in alarm and Operation/Extended Operation
displays any properties and commands of the point in alarm.
 If you are handling the alarm from the Assisted Treatment window,
Operation/Extended Operation in the Contextual pane displays any properties
and commands of the point in alarm.
5.5.9.11 Checking the Event Source by Alias, Name, or Description
 You have customized the event descriptor to display the Alias, Name, or
Description [View] columns.
1. Depending on how you are handling the alarm, locate its event descriptor
[➙ 84] in Event List, or at the top of the Assisted Treatment or Investigative
Treatment window. (You may also be able to access the event descriptor in the
Event Detail bar).
2. In the event descriptor, click one of the following texts:
– Description [View]
– Name
– Alias
 If you're handling the alarm from Event List, Event List collapses (or is hidden),
System Manager displays in the foreground (if it was in the background) with
the event source highlighted in the specific view of System Browser. Textual
Viewer displays details of the point in alarm and Operation/Extended Operation
displays any properties and commands of the point in alarm. To go back to
handling the alarm, open (or expand) Event List.
 If you are handling the alarm from the Investigative Treatment window, the
event source is highlighted in the specific view of System Browser. Textual
Viewer displays details of the point in alarm and Operation/Extended Operation
displays any properties and commands of the point in alarm.
 If you are handling the alarm from the Assisted Treatment window,
Operation/Extended Operation in the Contextual pane displays any properties
and commands of the point in alarm.
5.5.9.12 Viewing the Intervention Text
Before proceeding with alarm handling, you may want to view the intervention text
of a specific event.
 You have selected an event, and the
intervention text icon is available in the
event descriptor [➙ 84].
 Click Intervention Text .
 The event descriptor displays the available technical information (if any). To
hide this text, click the same icon again.