RSView Supervisory Edition Installation Guide

11 • CREATING ALARMS• • • • •temperatures that fluctuate slowly, you can check for alarms less frequently than if you aremonitoring rapidly-changing manufacturing processes.Setting up alarm monitoring on redundant serversIf you have set up redundant HMI servers, alarms can be logged and printed on the activeHMI server only, or on both the active and the standby HMI server.11 • PlaceholderFor alarm states to be synchronized properly, the clocks on the primary and secondary HMIservers must be kept synchronized to a time server. If the clocks are not synchronized, when afail-over occurs, multiple alarms or inconsistent information might display in an alarm summary.Setting up alarm severitiesIn the Severities tab of the Alarm Setup editor, you can set up logging destinations foreach alarm severity and alarm incident. For each severity or incident, you can log to thealarm log file, to a printer, or to both.When logging to a printer, you can use only continuous-feed printers, such as dot-matrix printers.Page printers, such as laser printers, are not supported.You can also specify how notification of alarms of a particular severity will be handled.For details about alarm annunciation, see Help.Alarm severitiesAlarm incidents11-17