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RSView Supervisory Edition Installation Guide

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11 • CREATING ALARMS• • • • •Viewing alarm log filesThe Alarm Log Viewer displays the contents of alarm log files. The contents of the alarmlog files depend on how you set up alarm severities in the Alarm Setup editor.For information about the contents of the alarm log ODBC tables, see page C-2.You can display alarm log files stored either on the local computer or on a remotecomputer, and you can select the number of log files to be displayed in the alarm logviewer. Each alarm log file is displayed in a separate tab in the Alarm Log Viewer.11 • PlaceholderOpening the Alarm Log ViewerTo open the Alarm Log Viewer, use one of these methods:• In <strong>RSView</strong> Studio or the <strong>RSView</strong> Administration Console, click the Tools menu, andthen click Alarm Log Viewer.• Click the Windows Start button, click Programs, Rockwell Software, <strong>RSView</strong>Enterprise, Tools, and then click SE Alarm Log Viewer.For information about setting up and using the Alarm Log Viewer, see Help for the AlarmLog Viewer.To open the alarm log viewer Help1. Click the Start menu, select Programs, Rockwell Software, <strong>RSView</strong> Enterprise, Tools,and then click SE Alarm Log Viewer Help.To display the Alarm Log Viewer at run time1. In a graphic display, create a button operators can use to open the Alarm Log Viewer.2. For the button’s press action, type the following command:AppStart “C:\Program Files\Rockwell Software\<strong>RSView</strong> Enterprise\AlarmLogViewer.exe”You must include the quotation marks, because there are spaces in the parameter.At run time, as a result of operating system rules, the viewer might open behind the <strong>RSView</strong> SEClient window. If the operator is unaware of this, and presses the button again, another instanceof the viewer will open. This could result in multiple viewers being open at the same time.To avoid this, the operator can bring the viewer to the front manually, and close it when it is nolonger required. Or, you can work around the problem programmatically. For details, search forTechnote ID P9029 in the Rockwell Automation KnowledgeBase. For help finding theKnowledgeBase, see “Information on the Internet” on page P-2.11-27

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