Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Site Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 213)

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Setting up HMI tag alarms
This chapter describes:
 What HMI tag alarms are.
 Key HMI tag alarms concepts.
 The steps involved in setting up HMI tag alarms.
 Setting up general alarm behavior.
 Setting up alarm conditions for HMI tags.
 What FactoryTalk View SE alarm events are.
 Setting up HMI tag alarm logging.
 Viewing HMI tag alarm log files.
 Suppressing alarm logging.
 Creating an HMI tag alarm summary.
 Using tag placeholders to specify alarms.
 Running commands or custom programs in response to alarms.
 Starting and stopping HMI tag alarm monitoring.
About HMI tag alarms
Alarms are an important part of most plant control applications because they alert
operators when something goes wrong.
An alarm can signal that a device or process has ceased operating within acceptable,
predefined limits, or it can indicate breakdown, wear, or a process malfunction. Often, it is
also important to have a record of alarms and whether they were acknowledged.
In FactoryTalk View Site Edition, you can specify alarm conditions for tags you want to
monitor in an HMI server’s tag database.
Alarms set up for HMI analog and digital tags are detected at the HMI server.
When an alarm is detected, notification is sent to connected FactoryTalk View SE clients,
where operators can view and acknowledge the alarms in graphic displays.