Assignment of Alarm Classes in the Default Profile

The alarm class determines in which alarm category an alarm is displayed in the Alarm Summary bar. For each alarm class, there are four different ways of reacting to an alarm.

Alarm Handling

Alarm Type

Alarm Behavior

User Action

Alarm

Acknowledge and reset the alarm

Alarm_Dynamic

Acknowledge and reset the alarm executing commands defined on the alarm source

Alarm_NoAckNoReset

No user action necessary

 

Alarm_NoReset

Acknowledge the alarm.

Alarm_Dynamic

In the alarm source property, an alarm acknowledges and a reset command must be defined in the object model. When an acknowledge or reset command is sent from the event list, the related command defined on the property is executed.

 

 

Information

NOTE:
Only assign the alarm classes that are available in the respective event schema. If an event schema does not support an alarm class, no alarm is transmitted to and displayed in its Alarm Summary bar.