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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
in “Configuring the report printer” on
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
x
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-
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