RSView Supervisory Edition Installation Guide

11Creating alarmsThis chapter describes:• the features of RSView ® Supervisory Edition alarms.• the steps involved in setting up alarms for an application.• key alarm concepts.• setting up general alarm behavior.• setting up alarm conditions for HMI tags.• setting up alarm logging.• viewing alarm log files.• setting up security to log alarms to a remote computer.• creating an alarm summary graphic object.• starting and stopping alarm monitoring.About RSView Supervisory Edition alarmsAlarms are an important part of most plant control applications because they alertoperators when something goes wrong. Often, it is also important to have a record ofalarms and whether they were acknowledged.In RSView Studio , you can set up a complete alarm system. At run time, alarmmonitoring occurs at the HMI server. If alarms are detected, notification is sent toconnected RSView SE clients, where operators can view and acknowledge the alarms.In an RSView application, you can monitor only HMI tags for alarms. You cannot monitordata server tags for alarms.Summary of featuresUsing the RSView alarm system, you can:• monitor any analog and digital HMI tag for alarms (to a maximum of 40,000 tags perHMI server, 10,000 of which can be analog).• display the last 2,000 alarm transactions from an HMI server in an alarm summary.• define up to eight different severity levels to distinguish alarms visually.• use system default messages or custom messages to describe alarms.11 • Placeholder11-1