Vaisala Veriteq viewLinc 4.0, Administrator'S Manual

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Chapter 5: Alarms
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If you want to apply an existing alarm template (which
defines how the alarm displays and who is notified when
a threshold is reached), select
Use Alarm Template
(see
“Creating Alarm Templates” on page 80) .
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If you want to define custom settings for this template,
complete the fields in the General Parameters,
Notifications, and Comments tabs. This option is also
available using the right click context menu while a
template is highlighted.
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When you are finished creating your threshold template,
click
Save
.
Threshold Alarms
Users with the correct permissions set device channel
thresholds that trigger alarms. For example:
• Greater than 23.00 C for more than 1 minute
• Less than 37.76 RH for more than 15 minutes
You can set a threshold alarm using a template (if previously
configured), or set a custom alarm.
Setting Threshold Alarms
You can configure several threshold alarms, for example, one
for yellow alarms (mild concern), another for red alarms
(extreme concern). For example, you could set a yellow
alarm to trigger first (at one minute out of threshold), and
send an email to someone who needs to know. For a red
alarm, you could set the alarm condition to a longer time
(15 minutes out of threshold) and send the email to a lab
manager, or a distribution list of people who need to be
notified to take action.