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NOTE
You may need to set up additional Notification Classes if your system will handle Life Safety alarms or if
you need to send certain types of alarms only to an alarm manager other than i-Vu/Field Assistant.
Priorities
NOTE
BACnet defines the following Network message priorities
for Alarms and Events.
Priority range
00–63
Network message priority
Life Safety
64–127
Critical Equipment
128–191
Urgent
192–255
Normal
BACnet priority for Alarms.
Priority of Off-Normal
BACnet priority for Fault messages.
Priority of Fault
BACnet priority for Return-to-normal messages.
Priority of Normal
Requires a controller acknowledgement for each message type.
Normally not required.
Ack Required for Off-Normal,
Fault, and Normal
TIP
To require operator acknowledgement for an Alarm or
Return-to-normal message (stored in the i-Vu/Field Assistant
database), change the acknowledgement settings on i-Vu/Field
Assistant's
Alarm
>
Enable/Disable
tab for an alarm source or an
alarm category.
Recipient List
The first row in this list is i-Vu/Field Assistant. Do not delete this
row. Click
Recipients
Add
Recipient Description
if you want other BACnet devices to receive
alarms.
Name that appears in the
Recipients
table.
Recipient Type
Use
Address
(static binding) only for third-party BACnet device
recipients that do not support dynamic binding.
Recipient Device Object
Identifier
Type the
Device Instance
from the network administrator for third-
party devices in the
#
field.
Process Identifier
Change for third-party devices that use a BACnet Process
Identifier other than i-Vu/Field Assistant processes alarms for any
32-bit Process Identifier.
Issue Confirmed Notifications
Select to have a device continue sending an alarm message until
it receives delivery confirmation from the recipient.
