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ION 7500 / ION 7600 User’s Guide Configuring the MeterM@il Feature to Send Alerts
MeterM@il Internal Email Server Feature Technical Note Page 243
Configuring the MeterM@il Feature to Send Alerts
The Alert module can be configured to send an email alert message to your
workstation – this keeps you informed about certain alarm conditions so you can
act on them.
The Alert module sends an alert whenever its Trigger input is pulsed. You can
connect this input to any module that produces a pulse output. You can use
modules that monitor alarm conditions such as changes in relay status and power
quality problems (surges, sags, swells, outages).
In the example framework above, a Sliding Window Demand module’s output is
monitored so that an alert is sent when the predicted demand value goes above a
certain limit. A Setpoint module is required to determine when the high limit
condition is met, and to send a pulse to trigger the Alert module. When the pulse
is received, the message is sent according to the Alert module’s setup register
values. The example above shows the setup registers that must be configured in
the Alert module for email alerts (see step 4 below for additional setup register
configuration).
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The SMTP Server address must be configured correctly before the MeterM@il feature can operate. In
addition, the SMTP Connection Timeout period may need to be extended (e.g. if the SMTP mail server
does not reside on the Ethernet network).
Setting up the meter to send alerts:
1. Create an Alert module.
2. Create an ION module that produces a pulse on one of its output registers when
the exceptional event occurs (in the example above, a Setpoint module pulses its
Trigger output when the setpoint condition is reached).
3. Link the Alert module’s Trigger input register to a pulse output register on the
module created in step 2.
4. Configure the following Alert module setup registers as follows:
Message – this string register contains the text of the alert to be emailed. You
can use up to 120 alphanumeric characters in your message string. Values
and names from registers linked to the module’s Source inputs can be
included in the message by referencing them in the message string.
Sliding Window
Demand Module
From Power
Meter module
Source PredDemand
Setpoint Module
Source Trigger
Alert Module
Trigger
Sending
Event
Lockout
Pending
Destination =
your_email@your_domain.com
Type = Email
Com Port = Ethernet