TREND 963 User Guide - Manual (Page 35)

Using 963
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3.4 Alarms
3.4.1 View Alarms
963 indicates that an alarm has been received from the IQ system by carrying out any actions that have been
engineered.
Alarms are shown as they arrive on the Incoming Alarms tab of the Alarm Viewer. This list stores the last 100
alarms. After alarms have been processed, they will appear in the Alarm History tab. In both of the lists icons
indicate whether or not an alarm has been actioned by a user. Colours are used to indicate whether the alarm is a set
alarm or a cleared alarm. A red bell indicates a set alarm, and a green bell indicates a cleared alarm. If the alarm has
been actioned by the user the bell with appear with a tick over it. The table below shows the different icons.
Icon Description
Set alarm that has not been actioned.
Set alarm that has been actioned.
Cleared alarm that has not been actioned.
Cleared alarm that has been actioned.
The Alarm History tab is colour coded to indicate whether or not the alarm is current. Red indicates that the alarm
is current.
There are a number of different ways in which alarms can be viewed:
View Alarms for a Particular Point
View Incoming Alarms
View Alarm History
View Alarms for an Alarm Panel
View Alarm Priority Statistics
View an Audit Trail
View the Current Value
3.4.1.1 View Alarms for a Particular Point
It is possible to view all the alarms for a particular point that is displayed on a schematic page, or from any point
displayed in the Device Viewer.
To view alarms for a particular point:
1. Display the page containing the point, or display the required point in the Device Viewer.
2. Right-click the point for which alarms are to be viewed, and on the displayed menu List of alarms. The
List of alarms dialogue box is displayed listing all the alarms that have occurred for that point. If there are
more than 500 alarms for the point <500 and 500> buttons will be enabled to provide access to the others.
3. To close the window click OK.
The alarms can be actioned by clicking the alarm to select it, and then clicking Action. All alarms can be
actioned by clicking Action all un-actioned alarms in the list. The list in the dialogue box can be printed
by right-clicking anywhere in the list, and on the displayed menu clicking Print this page. It can also be
saved to an HTML file, or inserted in an existing HTML file in a similar way.