User Manual

Alarms
Viewing historical alarm events
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⑥
Source
Device name/Object name.
⑦
Event state
The BACnet alarm state.
⑧
Priority
Alarm or event priority.
⑨
Message
The alarm message that was defined in the alarm definition.
⑩
Acknowledged date/time
Time and date that the alarm or event was acknowledged.
⑪
Acknowledged by
User name that acknowledged the alarm or event.
⑫
Acknowledge or Reset button
(Tile view only)
Only displays if a user role has been granted access to acknowledge alarms and when an
acknowledgment or reset is required.
Additional alarm information
The following table outlines some of the alarm properties that are displayed when you click . The properties
displayed depend on the object type.
Property
Description
alarmState The BACnet alarm state. For example, OFFNORMAL, HIGH_LIMIT, LOW_LIMIT, FAULT.
alarmText The alarm message that was defined in the alarm definition.
eventType The BACnet alarm or event type. For example, OUT_OF_RANGE.
notifyType The BACnet notification type of ALARM or EVENT.
priority The alarm or event priority
siteRefDis Name of the highest level of the hierarchy where the object in alarm resides.
targetRefDis
Name of the object in alarm, including the building structure hierarchy. If the object in alarm
is a data point, the
targetRefDis
and the
pointRefDis
are the same.
timeStamp Date and time of the alarm or event transition
Table 3: Information dialog box.
4.3 Viewing historical alarm events
The Alarms History view displays the alarms, events and acknowledgments that have been received since the
alarm history was last purged. If an alarm or event has been acknowledged, the information displays on a
separate row in the table. To display alarms with their acknowledgements, sort the table on the
Source column.
● Select History to display a static view of the current alarm and event notifications.
● Select Refresh history to refresh the display with new alarm, event or acknowledgement information.