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7.4 Viewing Message Buffers
Messages displayed on the OP are written to the message buffer concerned.
The message buffers can be called to view message history by means of stan-
dard screens.
The times of occurrence, acknowledgment and departure are displayed in
chronological order for all messages.
Choose the standard screen Alarms
→
View.
The messages contained in the alarm buffer are shown on the alarm message
list together with their message number, the date and time of their occurrence
and the message status (arrived, departed or acknowledged) and their ac-
knowledgment group on the display:
Q–Gr/No. 04/112 K on 08.12.92 09:34:00
Q–Gr/No. 04/112 Q on 08.12.92 09:35:42
Figure 7-2 Example Display of Alarm Buffer (Shown here for OP15/A)
Explanation relating to example display (first message):
Using the UP and DOWN arrow keys, you can now scroll through the mes-
sage text.
Q–Gr/No.
Details relating to next field: acknowledgment group and
alarm message number.
04/112
The displayed alarm message belongs to acknowledgment
group 04, the alarm message number is 112.
K
Message has arrived
Q
Message has been acknowledged
G
Message has departed
on
date time Date and time of arrival/acknowledgment/departure of
alarm message.
Display of message text relating to selected alarm mes-
sage:
Return to alarm message list:
To obtain an overview of all the alarm messages and the total number of
alarm messages still waiting in the buffer, choose the standard screen
Alarms
→
Number.
Message buffer
Viewing the alarm
buffer
Viewing total num-
ber of messages in
event buffer
Message Handling