Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Site Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 226)

F ACTORY T ALK V IEW S ITE E DITION U SER ’ S G UIDE
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Switching handshaking on
Handshaking is turned off by default. To switch handshaking on, you can:
 use the /H parameter with the AlarmOn command.
 use the HandshakeOn command.
For information about FactoryTalk View SE handshake commands, see the FactoryTalk
View Site Edition Help.
Summary of steps for setting up HMI tag alarms
Following are the tasks involved in setting up HMI tag alarms in a FactoryTalk View SE
application. Each task is described in detail, in subsequent sections of this chapter:
1. In the Alarm Setup editor, set up the attributes of all alarms on an HMI server:
 In the Setup tab, specify the maximum update rate, behavior whether HMI server
redundancy is set up, and whether to generate alarms for analog tags when their
values approach normal range.
 In the Severities tab, specify the logging destination and type of notification for
the alarm severity levels (1 through 8) and for alarm events.
 In the User Msgs tab, create user default messages to use in place of system
default message, when alarms occur.
2. Use the HMI Tag Alarm Log Setup tool to set up the alarm log file. You can specify
where the file is stored, and when (or whether) log files will be created and deleted.
3. In the Tags editor, in the Analog or Digital Alarm editor, specify alarm conditions for
each HMI tag you want to monitor. You can define alarms for analog and digital tags,
but not for string tags.
4. In the Graphics editor, set up alarm information displays. In graphic displays, you can:
 Set up alarm summaries.
 Embed numeric or string displays that use alarm functions or alarm system tags.
 Provide ways to start and stop alarm monitoring.
The FactoryTalk View AlarmOn and AlarmOff commands control alarm monitoring on
the HMI server. How you choose to start and stop alarm monitoring is particularly
important for network distributed applications. For details, see page 11-42.