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To select where you want the alarms to go:

■

From the Installation Menu, select

Alarm

. The Edit Alarm

Destination screen will appear.

Sending alarms to a printer or file

To output the alarm report to a printer or to a file:

■

Follow the same rules for

Alarm Printer Filename

and

Alarm Printer Type

as you did for

Printer Filename

and

page 4-5, earlier in this chapter.

Sending alarms to a computer

You can choose to output alarm messages to another computer, such as
one running Accumaster.

Before attempting to configure Access Manager to send alarm reports to
another compute , you must first enter

SERIAL DEVICE

for the

Access Arrangement of a Comline

in the Comlines Definition

screen. In other words, the only time you can use

COMx

(where

is a

number) in the

Alarm Printer Filename

field is when you have

defined the comline for a serial device.

CAUTION

However, if you’re using an actual serial printer, you cannot use a
name such as

COM1

in the

Alarm Printer Filename

field. If you

do, Access Manager may halt. Instead, you must enter LPT1 or LPT2
in the

Edit Report Printer Configuration screen, and then use the

MODE command from DOS to redirect the LPT port to a non-