Honeywell K5404V9 manual Alarm Station, Setting the Date for Correct Alarm Sorting

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6.9.1Setting the Date for Correct Alarm Sorting

Multi-Media reports use true chronological lists of alarms only if care is taken to express the date in numbers.

Make the date display as “yyyy-MM-dd” in Microsoft Windows.

!94 To set the windows date

1.Using Microsoft Windows, click Start.

2.Click Control Panel on the Settings menu.

3.Double-click the Regional Settings icon. A Regional Settings Properties window appears. For Win2000 users: the icon is labeled “Regional Options” in Win2000.

4.Click the Date tab.

5.In the Short Date Style box, type “yy-mm-dd”. What matters most is that one uses a “year, month, day” sequence and that months are expressed in numbers, not text. The double “m” and “d” ensure that single digits are padded with zeroes. For example, June 7 is expressed as 06/07. For Win2000 users: the box is labeled Short Data Format.

6.Click Apply.

7.Click OK.

6.10Alarm Station

Alarm station definition

Although you can run many alarm sessions in sequence (a polling method), this may be inconvenient on Multi systems that rely on dial-up connections. Your Multi SA can configure a Rapid Eye Multi-Media unit to call a specific PC when an alarm is triggered by an event. Such a PC is then a Multi Alarm Station.

6.10.1Alarm: Station vs. Session

Sites are set to call/callback Multi alarm stations by a Multi SA. Critical sites should be setup this way to ensure that alarms reach your alarm station, even when there is no alarm session in progress. For example, callbacks can be most effective for managing:

•A large number of sites. It can be impractical to start, use and end alarm sessions on many video units, especially via dial-up. Having a Multi SA set up a callback frees you of polling the sites for alarms.

•24/7 situations. Having a Multi SA set up a callback ensures notification of your alarm station. Alarm sessions can be ended.

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