RSView Supervisory Edition Installation Guide

• • • • •RSVIEW SUPERVISORY EDITION USER’S GUIDE• log messages to a file, to a printer, or to both.• suppress alarms for maintenance and tuning purposes.• associate a command or macro with an alarm to provide custom handling of the alarm.• share alarm information with other RSView components. For example, you can usealarm functions in expressions in a graphic display.• synchronize alarm acknowledgement on redundant HMI server pairs using theAcknowledge bit.• use the AlarmEvent command to respond to alarm detection algorithms you havecreated for notification (annunciation), logging, printing, and for display in alarmsummaries.Setting up alarms for an applicationThese are the tasks involved in setting up alarms for an application:1. In the Alarm Setup editor, set up the attributes of all alarms on an HMI server. Thisincludes:• in the Setup tab, specifying the maximum update rate, behavior if redundancy isset up, and whether to generate alarms for analog tags when their values approachnormal range.• in the Severities tab, specifying the logging destination and notification for thevarious levels of alarm severity (1 through 8) and alarm events.• in the User Msgs tab, create user default messages to use in place of systemdefault message, when alarms occur.2. Using the Alarm Log Setup tool, set up the alarm log file. The alarm log file is arecord of alarm incidents. You can specify where the alarm log file is stored, andwhen– if ever–log files will be created and deleted.3. In the Analog or Digital Alarm dialog box in the Tags editor, specify alarm conditionsfor each HMI tag you intend to monitor. You can define alarms for analog and digitaltags, but not for string tags.4. In the Graphics editor, set up ways to display alarm information. In graphic displays,you can:• set up alarm summaries.• embed numeric or string displays that use alarm functions or alarm system tags.11-2