C•CURE 800/8000 Monitoring Station Guide - Tyco Security Products

OverviewOverviewEvents can be triggered by manual actions, or they can be configured to betriggered by state changes, such as input activations, rejected accesses, or timespecifications. When triggered, events can perform multiple functionsdepending on the actions associated with them by the system administrator.Example:You can configure an event to activate an alarm and to be annunciated atthe Monitoring Station when a specified door is held open past its shunttime. In this case, the state change (the door being held open past its shunttime) activates the event, which activates an alarm and causes theMonitoring Station to display a message about the state change.The following conditions cause an event to be active:• There are active causes for the event. The event remains active until theactive causes reset.• There are active causes for the event, and the event requiresacknowledgement. The event remains active until the active causes reset,and the event is acknowledged.Many events require that you acknowledge them. You can use the EventMonitor to both acknowledge the event and provide information about it.Some events require that you log a message. The Review Event dialog boxtells you if a log message is required. An event disappears from the EventMonitor under any of the following conditions:Table 4-1: Event Monitoring ConditionsThe event disappears if... And... And...the event does not needacknowledgmentthe event needsacknowledgmentthe event needsacknowledgmentall of its causes have reset.it has been acknowledgedit has been acknowledgedand all of its causes havereset.the flag Acknowledgementclears event regardless ofactive causes is set on theEvent dialog box.the flag Acknowledgementclears event regardless ofactive causes is not set onthe Event dialog box.4–2 C•CURE 800/8000 Monitoring Station User Guide