Alarm Filter window
This window defines the criteria used to include or exclude alarms from the Alarm Console view.
Figure 10. Alarm Filter window
You open this window by clicking the Filter button (
) on the Alarm Console view.
Alarm Filter search criteria
| Criterion | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Timestamp | Time chooser | Sets up start and end dates and times, days of the week or a schedule to use as filter criteria. The time in each alarm record identifies when the point’s status changed from normal to offnormal. |
| Source Name | text | Reports the name of the alarm source. If you use the default script setting (%parent.displayName%), the source name property shows the display name of the alarm extension parent. You can edit this script, or type in a literal string, to display here. |
| Source State | text |
Identifies the component state transition:
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| Ack State | text | Reports the state of the alarm (unacknowledged, acknowledged). |
| Priority | min and max numbers | Defines the priority level to assign to the alarm class for each component state transition (from normal to Offnormal, from normal to Fault, from normal to Alert, and from offnormal, fault and alert to Normal).
The lower the number, the more significant the alarm. The highest priority alarm is number 1. |
| Alarm Class | text | Defines alarm routing options and priority. Typical alarm classes include High, Medium and Low. An alarm class of Low might send and email message, while an alarm class of High might trigger a text message to the department manager.
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| Message | text | Limits the search based on the customized message created for this alarm. The result reports only alarms that contain this specific message text. |
| Badge | text | Limits the search to specific badge number(s). |
| User | text | Limits the search to specific user(s). |