User Guide

Alarm Management
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Overview of Summary Bar
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5.1.1.1 Event Lamp
The alarms that occur in the building-control system are grouped into categories
[➙ 99], which are color-coded by severity. Each category typically corresponds to
an event lamp that displays in the Summary bar.
Each event lamp shows the total number of alarms for that category, and how
many of those are unprocessed (not yet acknowledged by the operator). An event
lamp will also flash if there are any unprocessed alarms in its category.
NOTE:
The number of lamps and their corresponding categories depends on the Client
Profile [➙ 76].
Event Lamp Indicators
Item
Name
Description
1 Background color Indicates the category color of the event.
2 Event counter Shows the total number of alarms for that
category present in Event List (second number),
and how many of those are unprocessed (first
number).
3 Event category Descriptive name of the category (for example,
Life Safety, Fault, and so on).
Event Lamp Display
Graphical Display
Background Color and Behavior
Status
Solid gray. No events for that category.
Flashes from gray to the
category color.
New events for that category have
occurred in the system, and are
still unprocessed.
Flashes from gray to the dark
category color.
Filter by category activated. New
events for that category have
occurred in the system, and are
still unprocessed.
Solid category color and not
flashing.
There are no unprocessed events
for that category.