When any member of the set is activated, all members of the set are activated.
Each member of a wired set must be designated as “Wired Set” or “Wired Group Ack,” except the last member of the set, which must be designed as “No,” “No Group Ack,” “Salvo,” or “Salvo Group Ack.”
−No Group Ack, Yes Group Ack, Salvo Group Ack, Wired Group Ack – When an alarm is cleared manually by a keyboard operator, all alarms in the wired set are cleared.
•Aux – Identifies an auxiliary device to be included as an action when this alarm activates. Choose from the following:
–Don’t Care – Ignores the auxiliary
–Aux
–Aux
•Dwell – When the monitor is armed to sequence alarms, the dwell time specifies how long an alarm stays on screen before the next alarm in queue takes its place. Options are
•Alarm Message – Message that appears on a given monitor when an alarm is activated. Alarm messages are created in the Alarm – Alarm Messages screen.
After the alarm message is created, enter the alarm message number in the Alarm Messages field of the Alarm – Contact Definitions screen.
•Email Message – Text of Email message delivered to recipients designated in the Alarms – Email messages screen (Figure 86). A message can be sent to any designated Email address in the event of an alarm.
To create an Email message, click on the Email Message field and the following appears:
−<<Add New…>> – When you select this, click again outside this field and the following dialog box appears (Figure 83).
Figure 83. Email Message dialog
1.To prepare an Email message, complete the following fields in the dialog box:
–Host Address – Enter the IP address of the host Email server.
–Send To: – Section that allows up to three Email addresses to be designated.
–Email Address – Enter each Email address that you want the message to go to.
–Subject – Enter a subject line that briefly describes the action to take in the event an alarm occurs.
–Message – Add descriptive text that will help the reader to understand what needs to be accomplished.
2.Click OK to save and close the dialog box.
•Alarm Trigger – Enables the configuring of dome input alarms. The first two columns, Dome and Dome Input can be edited while the third column, Video Loss Camera (range) is
Figure 84. Alarm Trigger Columns
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