Ack Required

Any alarm assigned to this alarm class is required to have the selected alarm transitions acknowledged when the associated option is selected (toOffnormal, toFault, toNormal, toAlert). If no option is selected, then no ack is required.

Priority

These fields allow for custom entry of priority levels for each alarm transition type. The priority levels are associated with the alarms and are indicated graphically by colors that you can set in the alarm options dialog box. Refer to Alarm Console options for details about setting priority colors.

Total Alarm Count

This property displays the total number of alarms that have been assigned to the alarm class from all sources.

Open Alarm Count

This property displays the current total number of open alarms.

An alarm is considered open when it is not (acknowledged and normal) or not (acknowledged and alert) .

In Alarm Count

This property displays the total number of alarm conditions.

Unacked Alarm Count

This property displays the total number of unacknowledged alarms.

Time of Last Alarm

This property displays the time that the last alarm (assigned to this alarm class) was generated.

Escalation Level(n) Enable (where n is 1, 2, or 3)

Select the true or false option of this property to enable or disable escalation at this level.

Escalation Level(n) Delay (where n is 1, 2, or 3)

This property is the time since the alarm was generated until it is escalated. This is not the time between escalation levels. Set a time (in hours and minutes) that you want to allow an unacknowledged alarm to remain unacknowledged before you escalate it to the next level. One minute is the smallest increment that you can set for escalation level delay.