Recognise alarms

Recognise alarms

An alarm situation is indicated in three ways, depending on the definitions made by the system designer:

The alarm icon is automatically incremented.
In the process diagram, the symbol representing the process object changes color and/or begins to flash.
The diagram’s message line displays a message about the nature of the alarm.

To view the alarm, please…

Double click on the alarm icon $images\almicon.gif$ .

OR
Click $images\actalms.gif$ displayed in the taskbar at the bottom of the process diagram.
Left click of the flashing symbol in the process diagram. A selection box appears next to the symbol, providing you with the options $images\ACKNALM.gif$ , amongst others.

Notes

The first two actions take you directly into the Alarm List and the Alarm program with all its alarm handling, alarm reporting and editing facilities.
Once you are in the Alarm program you have full access to the relevant help functions.
Action no. 3 allows you to acknowledge the alarm, to view the associated message text and/or enter your own comments, but you stay in the Supervise program.