Alarm Db view
This view is similar to the Alarm Database Maintenance view. It provides a table of history records that cannot be deleted by the operator.
The alarm database view only requires read access to allow operator-level personnel to view alarms in the alarm console. When a point is no longer in alarm, it is removed from the console. The primary purpose of this view is to provide operators a way to view alarms without requiring admin access to delete alarms from the alarm database.
You can double-click on any row in the alarm database maintenance view table and the Alarm Details dialog box appears.
Columns
| Column | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Ack Required | true or false |
Indicates if the alarm must be acknowledged (true) or not (false).
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| Ack Time | hours:minutes:seconds | Displays the time that the alarm was acknowledged (if applicable). |
| Ack State | Acked or Unacked | Indicates if the alarm has been acknowledged. |
| Alarm Class | List, console column, or field or %alarmClass% on a report. | Specifies or returns the alarm routing option for the component. |
| Alarm Data | read-only |
Presents a detailed list of alarm data, including this information:
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| Alarm Transition | text | Shows the initial source state that caused the alarm to be generated. The Alarm Transition may not be the current state of the alarm source. Once an Alarm Transition is created, it does not change for a single alarm record. For example, if the source state returned to “Normal” after an “Offnormal” status, this value remains at “Offnormal”. |
| Message | text | The actual log message. |
| Normal Time or NormalTime | date and time | Displays the date and time (if applicable) that the alarm state returned to normal. |
| Priority [alarm] | read-only | Ranks the alarm on a pre-defined importance scale. The lower the number, the higher the Priority. |
| Source | %alarmData.sourceName% | Displays the path to the point that is generating the alarm.
NOTE: For how to format this information on a report, click on the help icon to the right of the field.
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| Source State or sourceState | NormalHigh Limit | The status of the entity at the time the event, such as an alarm, occurred. |
| Timestamp | hours:minutes:seconds%timestamp% (on a report) | Specifies the date and time the event occurred. |
| User [alarms] | Drop-down list | Identifies the person that acknowledged the alarm. An unacknowledged alarm displays “unknown.” |
| Uuid | read-only | Displays the Unique Universal Identifier (UUID) the system uses to uniquely identify the alarm record. |
| Last Update | read-only | Displays the time the system most recently updated the alarm. |