Multi-Tech Systems 7500, 7600 manual Configuring the MeterM@il Feature to Send Alerts

ION 7500 / ION 7600 User’s Guide Configuring the MeterM@il Feature to Send Alerts

Configuring the MeterM@il Feature to Send Alerts

The Alert module can be configured to send an email alert message to your workstation – this keeps you informed about certain alarm conditions so you can act on them.

The Alert module sends an alert whenever its Trigger input is pulsed. You can connect this input to any module that produces a pulse output. You can use modules that monitor alarm conditions such as changes in relay status and power quality problems (surges, sags, swells, outages).

From Power

Meter module Sliding Window Demand Module

Source

PredDemand

Setpoint Module

Source

Alert Module

Trigger Trigger

Destination =

your_email@your_domain.com Type = Email

Com Port = Ethernet

Pending

Sending

Lockout

Event

In the example framework above, a Sliding Window Demand module’s output is monitored so that an alert is sent when the predicted demand value goes above a certain limit. A Setpoint module is required to determine when the high limit condition is met, and to send a pulse to trigger the Alert module. When the pulse is received, the message is sent according to the Alert module’s setup register values. The example above shows the setup registers that must be configured in the Alert module for email alerts (see step 4 below for additional setup register configuration).

NOTE

The SMTP Server address must be configured correctly before the MeterM@il feature can operate. In addition, the SMTP Connection Timeout period may need to be extended (e.g. if the SMTP mail server does not reside on the Ethernet network).

Setting up the meter to send alerts:

1.Create an Alert module.

2.Create an ION module that produces a pulse on one of its output registers when the exceptional event occurs (in the example above, a Setpoint module pulses its Trigger output when the setpoint condition is reached).

3.Link the Alert module’s Trigger input register to a pulse output register on the module created in step 2.

4.Configure the following Alert module setup registers as follows:

Message – this string register contains the text of the alert to be emailed. You can use up to 120 alphanumeric characters in your message string. Values and names from registers linked to the module’s Source inputs can be included in the message by referencing them in the message string.

MeterM@il Internal Email Server Feature Technical Note Page 243