Honeywell K5404V9 manual Alarms and Events, About Alarms, Alarm notification

6 Alarms and Events

6.1About Alarms

Flexibility

A Multi system administrator (Multi SA) can set a Multi-Media unit to:

•log events and/or have them trigger an alarm. No special hardware is needed for such alarms: they ring on an operator’s PC. By default, some events are always logged, for administrative purposes.

•send alarms to a designated PC. Such a PC is then known as a Multi-Media alarm station. See 6.10: Alarm Station, starting on p. 6–20.

Fig. 54. A Multi SA can set a unit to send alarms to a specific PC.

Alarm notification

When an alarm reaches a View operator’s PC, the alarm bell icon in View appears to vibrate and the PC produces a beeping sound (figure 55).

Fig. 55. The alarm bell icon in View software

To stop the ringing of an alarm, click the alarm bell icon, shown in figure 55

Alarms are not acknowledged; only the ringing stops. Ringing resumes if session is reopened.

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