Rockwell Automation 9301 Series RSView32 Users Guide - Manual (Page 127)

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Chapter 6
Configuring alarms
In RSView32 ™ , you can set up a complete alarm system. Alarms are
an important part of most plant control applications because an
operator must know the instant something goes wrong. It is often
equally important to have a record of the alarm and whether the alarm
was acknowledged.
Summary of features
With the RSView32 alarm system, you can:
monitor any analog and digital tag for alarms (to a maximum of
40,000 tags)
display the last 1000 alarms in an alarm summary
define up to eight different severity levels to distinguish alarms
visually
use system default messages or create unique messages to describe
an alarm
log messages to a file, to a printer, or to both
suppress alarms for maintenance and tuning purposes
associate a macro with an alarm to provide custom handling of the
alarm
share alarm information with other RSView32 components
set up global alarm monitoring