About DR Events

There can be more than one event under a DR program, as shown in Figure 14.

Figure 14. Multiple events under DR program

Double-clicking a DR program under the Programs node opens the Adr Event Manager view., shown in Figure 15

Figure 15. Adr Event Manager view

Each DR event carries information about event start time, end time and event info values. Figure 16 below shows the property sheet view of a DR event.

Figure 16. Adr Event Property Sheet view

The following Event properties are available in the AdrEvent property sheet view:

Program Name

Identifier of the program that this DR event was issued for.
Event Mod Number

Modification number of the DR event. Used to indicate if the DR Event has been modified by the Utility. Each time it is modified this number is incremented.
Event Identifier

Identifier for the DR event that was created when the DR event was first issued.
Dras Client ID

Identifier of the DRAS client that this event is being sent to.
Event State Id

This is a transaction ID that is guaranteed to be unique for each instance of the event that is generated and sent to the DRAS Client. It is used by the DRAS Client to confirm reception of the event from the DRAS.
Schema Version

This is the version number for the event state XML schema sent from DRAS server.
Dras Name

Optional field that is the name and/or version of the DRAS server that is sending the event message.
Test Event

This attribute signifies whether this is a test event or not. Test events may be issued by the Utility/ISO like other DR Events.
This is not tested.
Offline

This field signifies whether from the DRAS point of view the DRAS Client is off line. If this field is TRUE then the DRAS Client is off line and if it is FALSE then the DRAS Client is on line.
This is not tested.
Notification Time

Date and time that the DRAS Client should first be notified of the upcoming DR event.
Start Time

Date and time for when the DR event begins.
End time

Date time for when the DR event ends.
Current Time

This is the relative time in seconds from the beginning of the DR event window that this particular instance of the event is valid for.
- When this value is negative, it indicates that event has still not reached active state.
- When this value reaches zero, it indicates the event start time.
- When this value is positive, it indicates that the event is active.
One exception is that Event Status might display as "active" even if the Current Time has a negative value when there is a manual configuration in the server. For additional details on “Current Time”, see section Manual vs. Auto-DR Mode.
Event StatusThis is the DR event status that is valid at the time specified by the current Time slot. DR event can be in four different states:
- None
  
  There are no events scheduled in server.
- Far
  
  Event is notified, but not yet started.
- Near
  
  Event is notified, and it is nearing the active window.
- Active
  
  Event is active.
Op Mode Value

This is the operation mode value that is valid at the time specified by the Current Time slot. This can take one of the following values: Normal, Moderate, High and Special
Event Info

A comma separated string representing the event information that's available for this event.
Event Confirmation

Represents whether event acknowledgement is sent to server successfully.If success, this slot will have a value "SUCCESS", in case of failure, appropriate error string is displayed.