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Alarm Toolbar

The alarms toolbar provides access to current alarm information and navigation buttons for single-click access to alarm pages. It also includes standard Citect SCADA prompt and current date and time.

The alarms toolbar contains the following features:

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Last Alarms

The center panel of the toolbar displays the last alarms triggered within the system, providing the operator with an immediate visual cue to alarm occurrences.

You can modify the format of this list and control which alarms appear. For example, you can set the list to only display alarms of a particular type, category or priority.

For details, see the Alarm parameters LastAlarmFmt, LastAlarmCategories, LastAlarmPriorities, and LastAlarmType.

Active Alarms

Changes the display to the active alarms page. This button is animated and shows the count of unacknowledged alarms in the system. The page displayed by this button is determined by the parameter [Page]AlarmPage.

Historical Events

The arrow to the right allows you to change the display to the sequence of events or alarm summary page. When clicking on the historical events button again the sequence of events page will display by default.However, if there is no SOE page configured in the project, the alarm summary page will be displayed.

Sequence of events - Select the option Sequence of Events. The SOE page displays each state transition of an alarm instance as a separate row.

This page is determined by the [Page]SOEPage.

Alarm Summary - The alarm summary page provides an historical log of alarm occurrences.

This page is determined by the [Page]SummaryPage.

Hardware Alarms

Changes the display to the hardware alarms page. This is an animated button which will blink when an unacknowledged hardware alarm occurs. The page displayed by this button is determined by the parameter [Page]HardwarePage.

Disabled Alarms

Changes the display to the disabled alarms page. This button shows the count of disabled alarms in the system. The page displayed by this button is determined by the parameter [Page]DisabledPage.

Alarm Silence

Silences the audible alarm buzzer that sounds when there are pending unacknowledged alarms. See Implementing Audible Alarms.

Published June 2018