Viewing alarms
The Alarm Console is where you view open alarms. The OrionAlarmArchiveProvider includes views for displaying archived alarms. You can also use a BQL query.
Prerequisites: Your file alarm database contains open alarms. Your remote Orion alarm database contains archived alarms.
- To view archived alarms, double–click OrionAlarmService, click the drop-down list in the upper right corner of the view and select Alarm Db View.The Alarm History view opens.
The drop-down list indicates all the information this view can contain.
- To query the Orion alarm database, use the openAlarms or ackPending extents.For example:
- alarm:archive|bql:select * where source like '%/control/temp/BooleanChangeOfStateAlarmExt'
- alarm:archive|bql:select * where (sourceState = 'normal' or sourceState = 'alert') and ackState = 'acked'
- "alarm:archive|bql: select * where source = OrdList 'slot:/control/temp'"
For any query looking for both open and closed alarms, you must run it against both the local database and the archive. Archived records are part of the openAlarms. For example, neither of the following queries results in any records from the archive alarm:
alarm:|bql:select * from openAlarmsalarm:archive|bql:select * from openAlarms