This procedure verifies that alarms are working properly.
Prerequisites: You should have access to third-party BACnet tools for the remote BACnet clients. In addition, the AlarmClasses
involved are linked to a standard AlarmConsole recipient.
- Force into an alarm condition one of the exported control points that is exported to BACnet (and assigned to an exported AlarmClass).
For example, you can do this by adjusting an alarm high limit or low limit.
The station routes the alarm via the exported AlarmClass to the linked BacnetDestination (client) devices. This translates the alarm from a standard format to a BACnet format. At the same time, the alarm should
be available in the standard alarm console.
- Using a third-party tool to access the remote BACnet client, verify that the remote client receives the alarm.
- Open the linked alarm console and verify that it received the alarm.
- Using the third-party BACnet tool, issue an acknowledgment for the alarm.
- Verify that the station received the acknowledgment. The alarm acknowledgment will be saved in the alarm database.
- Remove the test alarm from the list of unacknowledged alarms in the alarm console.