Archiving inactive alarms, Alarm log record format – Verilink Access Manager 2000 (896-502037-001) Product Manual User Manual

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Alarm reporting

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Access Manager 2000 User Manual

Archiving inactive alarms

To archive inactive alarm records:

1. Starting from the Main Menu, select

Alarm Status

. The Alarm

Status (Review Alarm Log Database) screen appears.

2. From

this

screen, select

Archive

. A

screen labeled (Inactive

Alarms: Choose Archive Option) appears.

Four options are available for deactivated alarms:

The

Archive

option copies deactivated alarm records to a disk

file.

The

Print

option prints active and deactivated alarm records.

The

Archive (List)

option prints deactivated alarm records.

The

Delete

option deletes deactivated alarm records without

copying or printing.

The archived alarm log records are in a format compatible with:

Lotus 1-2-3 or similar spreadsheet file formats

dBase III Plus or similar database file formats

The format uses a comma-delimited ASCII record format. The maximum
file size is 65 kilobytes. If necessary, multiple files are created and
identified by the file name extension. The filename format is

Alarm Log Record
format

ALyymmdd.XXX

year of archive

month of archive

day of archive

filename extension,

numbered consecutively from 001 to 999

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