GE v6 Alarm Monitoring Using the Alarm Monitor Form, Priority, Description, Alarm State

Alarm Monitoring Using the Alarm Monitor Form

Reference Topics:

Alarm Monitor Form Toolbar

Alarm Monitor Form Shortcut Menu

For a shortcut menu to the functions available within the Alarm Monitor Form or to a related form, click the right mouse button within the first windowpane where the alarms display or the second pane where the messages display. Not all options will be available. You must select an alarm activity with a DVR association in order to enable video options on the shortcut menu.

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There are three sections to the Alarm Monitor Form:

•The top section or pane lists the alarms.

•The second pane lists any instructions assigned to the current (highlighted) alarm.

•The third pane allows you to respond to an alarm by either selecting a predefined response or entering your own.

Column Headings: (These are read-only categories for display purposes and cannot be used for sorting.)

Priority

Displays the priority of the alarm. The priority tells the system in which order it should alert the operator when multiple alarms occur simultaneously. The priority range is 0 to 9 and the lower the number, the higher the priority of the alarm.

Description

Displays the alarm description. Refer to the following examples:

•Tamper Alarm: mmm-b-pp Tamper where mmmm represents the micro number to which this alarm is associated, b represents the board number, pp represents the point or device number, and Tamper is the alarm description.

•Regional Failover on a Global System: bcttestpc–Region Failover Alarm where bcttestpc is the PC Name of the client that has failed over to its configured backup Region, and Region Failover Alarm is the alarm desciption.

If an event trigger has been defined for associating video with transactions from specified alarm(s), a

camera icon will display as part of the alarm description. When selecting an alarm transaction identified with an alarm icon, right-click to display a shortcut menu, then select a video option.

Reference

Displays additional information relating to the type of badge alarm. Only reader alarms have a reference, such as a person name or badge number. This column may be blank.

Alarm State

Displays the current state of the alarm. The four possible states are as follows:

•Alarm: The point is in the Active alarm state (either Closed or Opened). The Active alarm state for an alarm is defined on the Alarm Form.

•Reset: The point is no longer in the active alarm state.

•Cut: The wiring to the alarm point has been cut.

•Short: The wiring to the alarm point has been short circuited.

Process State

The process state is either Unacknowledged or Acknowledged. To acknowledge an alarm, select the desired alarm and click Acknowledge. The alarm icon will change to reflect the acknowledgement and clear from the window after reset.

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