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Rockwell Automation 9301 Series RSView32 Users Guide User Manual

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Configuring alarms

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To use the default messages for all alarms and alarm events, do not
change anything. The default messages will be used automatically.
Alarm events use system messages if you don’t specify a log message
string using the /L parameter with the AlarmEvent command.

These are the placeholders:

34

To specify the width of a column, type a number between the
backslash and letter (see the following example). This allows you to
create columns of equal width.

This

placeholder

Is replaced with

\C

Current value of tag in alarm.

\D

Date when message is sent.

\L

Alarm label specified in the Alarm Label field of the
Analog Alarm and Digital Alarm editors.

\N

Tag name of tag in alarm.

\S

Tag description of tag in alarm.

\T

Time when message is sent.

\U

Units specified in the Units field of the Tag
Database editor.

\V

Threshold value that was crossed.

\C, \U, and \V do not contain any information when used in alarm
Acknowledged messages.

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