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Configuring OVO
About Preconfigured Elements
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In addition, a flag indicating ownership displays in the own-state column
(S) of the Message Browser window. And the own-state color bar at the
bottom of the Message Browser window reflects the new number of
messages owned. For the purposes of status propagation, the status of a
message that is owned or marked is ignored in the Managed Nodes
window; the operator Message Group, Node Bank and Node Group Bank
windows; and the administrator Message Group Bank window. In
addition, the status of the message is not indicated by the OVO Alarm
symbol in the Node Submap.
About the “Status Propagation” Display Mode
If the ownership-display mode is set to status propagation, then the
status of all messages whether they are owned or not is used in reflecting
status propagation in the related symbols of other submap windows. In
this display mode, the only indication that the a message is owned is a
flag in the own-state column in the Message Browser window.
For more information on which flags you might expect to find in the ownstate
column and what they mean, see “Levels of Message Severity” on
page 80. For information on how to go about setting the ownership and
ownership-display modes, see the OVO Administrator’s Guide to Online
Information.
Changing Ownership Display Modes
To change to an alternative ownership display mode, follow these steps:
1. To use the required display mode, use the command line tool
ovconfchg on the OVO management server. For example, to change
to the status propagation display mode, use the option
OPC_OWN_DISPLAY STATUS_PROPAGATE. See “Types of Ownership
Display Modes” on page 85 for the available options.
2. Restart the OVO GUI.
3. Reload the configuration of any connected Java GUI. (See the OVO
Java GUI Operator’s Guide.)
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