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14.9 Alarms
Alarm presentation to the operator is highly configurable and beyond the scope of this document to
describe fully. For more information refer to the graphics editor help file. This section presents a typical
configuration thereby providing an introductory description on what the operator should expect.
The alarm object is generally used to enunciate alarms to the operator. While the display characteristics
of this object is configurable, it is generally displayed as a button that changes colors to indicate the
highest state of the alarm(s) in the alarm group it is monitoring. The following indicates the priority of
the alarm states and the default colors associated with these states.
Highest
(Red)
Unacknowledged Alarms Exist
—
(Yellow)
Acknowledged Alarms Exist
Lowest
(Green)
No Alarms Exist
To view, acknowledge and/or clear alarms, the operator must access the alarm viewer. This is
accomplished by touching an (enabled) alarm object. When accessed, the alarm viewer is displayed as
pop-up alarm viewer dialog similar to that shown in Figure 14.6.
Figure 14.5
–
Alarm Object