OVERVIEW

Alarm Viewer is one of the key parts of the HyperTAC II SCADA software. Its user-friendly environment provides you with important, up-to-the-moment, alarm-activity information, which enables you to respond to critical situations quickly.

Alarm Viewer features the ability to acknowledge alarms if your user account has been granted acknowledgement permission. When an alarm is acknowledged, Alarm Viewer logs the user name of the individual who acknowledged the alarm, and the date and time at which the alarm was acknowledged. This information can be viewed at any time by clicking the telemetry address of the acknowledged alarm.

Alarm Viewer can be opened from the HyperTAC II menu bar or by clicking the Alarm icon that is displayed in HyperTAC II's system tray. This icon will turn red and begin blinking when an alarm occurs.

ALARM VIEWER'S INTERFACE

Column Headers – Features the Time, Address, Name, and Description headers. Click on a header to sort alarms using that criteria. Click on the same header again to switch between descending and ascending order.
Display Area – Displays all pertinent alarm information: Time alarm occurred, telemetry address of point, user-defined name of point, description of alarm (user-defined alarm label as designated in Configuration Editor).
Scroll Bar – Allows you to scroll through the alarm list.
Sort by Status Button – Sorts the alarm list by status. Click the button to display the alarm list in the following order: ALARM (red), ACKNOWLEDGED (yellow), CLEARED (green). Click the button again to reverse the order.
Message Bar (area directly beneath Display area) – Displays important information including:
- date alarm occured
- login of individual who acknowledged the selected alarm
- date and time that alarm was acknowledged

Alarm Types and Colors

Alarm Viewer features three alarm categories. Each of these alarm types appears in a different color in the Display area, so that they are easily recognizable.

The three alarm categories are: Alarm, Acknowledged, Cleared.

ALARM	The point is currently in the alarm state and has not been acknowledged. These alarms are red.
ACKNOWLEDGED	The point is currently in the alarm state and has been acknowledged. These alarms are yellow.
CLEARED	The point was in an alarm state, is now cleared, but has not been acknowledged. These alarms are green.

SORTING ALARMS

Alarm Viewer offers five ways to sort alarms. These are:

Time – time alarm occurred
Address – telemetry address of point
Name – user-defined name of point
Description – user-defined alarm label for point
Status – current status of points (ALARM, ACKNOWLEDGED, CLEARED)

DELAY AND SNOOZE

When alarms are configured, you have the option of specifying a Delay and/or Snooze time. For this reason, it is important to frequently view alarm activity via Alarm Viewer. Delay is the amount of time (in seconds) that the point is allowed to be in the alarm state before it appears in Alarm Viewer. Snooze is the amount of time (in seconds) that is allowed to pass before an ACKNOWLEDGED alarm that has not cleared is returned to ALARM status. An alarm configured with a Delay or Snooze time is not displayed in Alarm Viewer until the specified time has elapsed.

ACKNOWLEDGING ALARMS

In order to acknowledge alarms, you must be logged in with an account that has been granted Acknowledge Alarms permission.

To acknowledge an alarm, you simply click the telemetry address of the alarm you want to acknowledge.

Alarms with ALARM status change from red to yellow. Alarms with CLEARED status disappear from the alarm list when they are acknowledged. The Message bar displays who the alarm was acknowledged by and at what time the alarm was acknowledged.

This information is maintained in a log and can be viewed for current, individual alarms in Alarm Viewer or for all alarms by creating a Log Report. See "Alarm Log" for more information). [Note: When an ACKNOWLEDGED alarm clears (is no longer in an alarm state), it disappears from the alarm list.]

ALARM LOG

HyperTACII maintains a log of all alarm activity, including information on who an alarm was acknowledged by and at what time the alarm was acknowledged. This information can be viewed for an individual alarm from Alarm Viewer or for all alarms by creating an Alarm Log Report (see "Reports > Alarm Log Report" for more information on Log Reports).

To view information on an acknowledged alarm (displayed in yellow text), you click the telemetry address of the acknowledged alarm. The selected address is surrounded by a broken, yellow line and alarm's color changes to yellow.

If you click the telemetry address of the acknowledged alarm, the Message bar displays the date the alarm occurred, the login of the individual who acknowledged the alarm, and the date and time at which the alarm was acknowledged.

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