Picture Perfect 4.6 User Manual - UTCFS Global Security Products

Chapter 10
Schedules, modes, and events
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Table 89. Alarm Event form fields (continued)
Field
Facility
Alarm
Routing
Online
Description
Click Facility to display the facilities list box. This field reflects the facility to which this record is
assigned. For more information, see Creating facilities on page 52.
Select the alarm for which the event occurs.
To send an alarm to a different routing at certain times, schedule an alarm event that specifies the
new routing and time. You can send the alarm message to the alarm monitor, a printer, the history log,
or to a combination of the three.
Example: If you want invalid-badge alarms to route to the log and monitor during the business day but
to the monitor and a printer after hours, set an alarm event for MTWT at 17:00 to start routing invalidbadge
alarms to the alarm monitor and to a selected printer. Set a parallel alarm event to occur on
MTWTF at 08:00 to start routing the alarm to the history log and monitor. If no one watches the alarm
monitor on weekends, another alarm event (F at 17:00) can start routing this alarm to the log and to
the printer. On Monday, scheduled alarm events begin to repeat the cycle.
• Online: To set an alarm online when the facility is closed for a holiday, use an alarm event that
does not cycle daily. Use a mode-start alarm event associated with your holiday mode. When the
system starts to operate in holiday mode, events that cycle during normal operating stop cycling.
Set this alarm to remain online until the system switches back to normal operating mode.
Note:
You may need to schedule a parallel mode-end alarm event (in case the system does not
return to normal operating mode) for other scheduled events to occur. However, the
preferred way is to schedule the input group offline/online. This way no input activity (ISC) is
sent to the host. See Input Group Events.
• Offline: To ensure that normal daytime activity does not trigger an alarm, use a runtime alarm
event to put this alarm offline during the day.
Example: Use an alarm event to set this alarm offline before the business day starts (MTWTF at
07:30). Use a parallel alarm event to set this alarm online after hours (MTWTF at 17:00). During
the weekend (between Friday at 5 PM and Monday at 7:30 AM), this alarm is online and does not
cycle daily.
• Do Not Care: See Radio buttons on page 27.
Mode
Select the mode in which the alarm event occurs. An event does not take place, if it is not assigned to
a mode and it only occurs in those modes to which it is assigned.
Begin Event At Mode Start If this is a Start/End event, click if you want the event to activate at the start
of the mode.
At Mode End
Time
If this is a Start/End event, click if you want the event to activate at the end
of the mode.
If the event is a Run Time event, click if you want the event to activate at a
specified time.
HHmmss
Time Zone
Context
Days of the Week
If the event is a Run Time event, select the time of day the event starts. Remember to schedule
another event as the pair of this one.
Example: If something is turned on every day at 8 a.m., it must be turned off at some time later that
day.
Select the time zone context in which the schedule should execute: Host, Micro, or Operator. See
Verifying time zones on page 161.
If the event is a Run Time event, select the days of the week the event occurs.