Viewing and acknowledging alarms from the alarm console
Acknowledging an alarm verifies human awareness that a potentially detrimental event has occurred or a condition exists with
a device that is outside its normal range of operation. You cannot remove an alarm until you acknowledge it and until the
alarm source returns to a normal state (no longer in alarm).This procedure acknowledges alarms from the alarm console.
Prerequisites: A ConsoleRecipient exists in the station.
- To display the AX Alarm Console, right–click the ConsoleRecipient node in Nav tree and click .The AX 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 all current alarms from a particular point, double-click point’s row in the table.This opens the Open Alarm Sources view.
- To use sound options, click the sound icon in the toolbar of the AX Alarm Console window.
- Select one or more alarms to acknowledge. You may select multiple alarms using the Shift or Ctrl keys.
- To view details about the selected alarm, double-click the alarm row in the table or select the alarm and click the Hyperlink button at the bottom of the AX Alarm Console view.
- To acknowledge one or more alarms, do one of the following:
- 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.