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6. A functional block representing the Alarm Notifier application and all of its static data points are
added to the bottom of the i.LON App (Internal) device tree, and the Alarm Notifier: Configure
Web page opens in the application frame to the right. The construction symbol overlaid onto the
Alarm Notifier application icon in the upper-left hand corner of the Web page indicates that the
application has not been configured yet.
7. Click Submit.
To open the Alarm Notifier application from an existing Alarm Notifier functional block, follow these
steps:
1. Click General if the SmartServer is not already operating in General mode. If the SmartServer is
in Driver mode when you click the functional block, the Setup - LON Functional Block Driver
Web page opens instead of the Alarm Notifier application.
2. Click the Alarm Notifier functional block representing the Alarm Notifier to be opened. The
Alarm Notifier: Configure Web page opens in the application frame to the right.
Selecting and Configuring Input Points
You can select and configure the input points to be monitored by the Alarm Notifier application. To
select an input point, follow these steps:
1. Click one of the Input icons ( ), or click anywhere in the Log box ( ). The
Alarm Notifier: Data Points Web page opens.
2. Select the data points to be monitored by the Alarm Notifier from the SmartServer tree. The
Alarm Notifier will check the status of the selected input points when they are updated, and send
an alarm notification if their statuses have been changed to an alarm condition. References to the
selected input points (
) are added to the bottom of the Alarm Notifier functional block tree, and
references to the Alarm Notifier functional block are added directly below the selected data points
(
).
If you want to monitor a data point of an external device that is being managed with OpenLNS
CT, OpenLNS tree, or another OpenLNS application, you must first copy the data point from the
OpenLNS tree to the SmartServer tree (see Adding Data Points to SmartServer Applications in
Chapter 4 for more information).