Managing alarms
You can configure how alarms appear in the Alarm Console, acknowledge alarms and manage the database of alarms. This topic summarizes in steps the basic ways to manage alarms.
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- To set up an alarm recipient, which is required to view the Alarm Console, open the alarm palette, expand Recipients and add a ConsoleRecipient to your station.
- To display the Alarm Console, right–click the ConsoleRecipient and click .The Alarm Console opens.
Each record that appears in the alarm console table represents one alarm source and one or more alarms from that source.
- To silence an alarm, select it and click the Silence button at the bottom of the view.
- To sort the alarms in order of any column, click the column title (once for ascending, twice for descending).
- To view details about the selected alarm, double-click the alarm row in the table, select the alarm and click Hyperlink or right-click and select Details from the menu.
- To acknowledge one or more of the alarms, select one or more and do one of the following:You may select multiple alarms using the Shift or Ctrl keys.
- To acknowledge the latest (most recent) alarm(s), right-click the selected alarm(s) and click Alarm Acknowledge Most Recent or click from the menu.
- To acknowledge all alarms that are reported from a single source, click or click the Acknowledge All button at the bottom of the console.
The system acknowledges the latest or all alarms from each selected alarm source. - To manage the alarm database, double-click the Alarm node under Station in the Nav tree.The Database Maintenance view opens.
More information about managing alarms is in the Niagara Alarms Guide