Evco RICS 4.30, User Manual

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Diagnostics
5.3.7 Display of the status of a specific device alarm
From the device alarm page (Screenshot 5.1) you can access the page regarding a single alarm (see Screenshot 5.2), by
clicking on the chosen alarm.
Screenshot 5.2: Example of a page showing a single device alarm.
This page is organized into two sections:
• Details: shows alarm information. If you have chosen to use Advanced diagnostics (on Main
menu>Configure>General>Alarms and selecting the relative checkbox), then on the page in Screenshot
5.2 there will be a checkbox called Extended diagnostics. By selecting it, the information about the alarm
is very detailed; if this information is hard to understand for an inexpert user you can deselect the Extended
diagnostics checkbox or indeed not use Advanced diagnostics: in that case only essential information will
be shown.
• Settings: by clicking on this button you can modify the settings for the various types of alarm (see paragraph
5.3.8).
In both of these sections you can display the various types of alarm using the arrows at the top-right of the page.
5.3.8 Modification of the settings for a specific device alarm
The settings associated with an alarm that can be modified in the Settings section are:
• Name ->The name to be associated to the alarm.
• Label ->Is the short-name to be associated to the alarm; this is used in some programme functions (for
example when sending SMS Text Messages Text Messages, where space is limited).
• Enabled ->If this checkbox is selected, the alarm is enabled. An alarm that is not enabled is ignored by the
system.
• Action (only the Top version) ->This is the action described in the Alarm Category that occurs when the
alarm is activated (the alarm must be enabled). To set the actions see paragraph 5.3.
• Alarm restore time: it allows setting the mode the normal condition is restored (Automatically, Manually
or Manually after the alarm has arisen a number of times you can set)
• Clear counters time (only the Top version) ->This is the lapsed time after which alarm counters are reset;
for example it cancels the counter that shows how many times the alarm has been triggered.
• Alarm characteristic\PC settings\Alarm condition delay ->This is the delay to be added to the time
when the alarm is activated before RICS also considers it active; for example, the alarm may be active on a
physical device but not be advised by RICS in so far as the associated delay has not yet passed.