Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Machine Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 130)

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 The Remote Status Reset connection’s value changes to a new non-zero value.
For more information about resetting alarms, see page 9-40.
Methods for printing alarm information
In addition to automatically printing each alarm message as it occurs, you can keep a
printed record of alarms:
 Use the Print Alarm History button. When the operator presses the button, a report of
the contents of the alarm log file is printed. The report can include the time alarms
occurred and were acknowledged.
You can set up this button to print the alarm history for a selected alarm trigger, or for
all alarms.
If you set up alarm messages in multiple languages, messages and trigger labels are
printed in the language that they were originally logged in. (Messages are logged in
the application language that is current at the time the message is triggered.) All alarm
times and acknowledge times are printed in the current application language.
 Use the Print Alarm Status button. When the operator presses the button, a report of
the status of alarms is printed. The report can include active alarms, past alarms, or all
alarms that have been set up in the Alarm Setup editor. The report can include how
many times each alarm was triggered, and the accumulated time in alarm.
You can set up this button to print the alarm status for a selected alarm trigger, or for
all alarms.
If you set up alarm messages in multiple languages, all messages, trigger labels, and
times are printed in the current application language.
For information about specifying which printer to use at run time for applications that will
run on a personal computer, see page 15-10. For information about the type of printer to
use with a PanelView Plus 7, PanelView Plus 6, PanelView Plus, or PanelView Plus CE
terminal, see page 16-1.
The alarm log file
As soon as the application starts running, FactoryTalk View begins monitoring trigger
connections for alarm conditions. When an alarm occurs, FactoryTalk View adds the
associated message to the alarm log file. When the file is full, the oldest messages are
deleted to make room for new messages. Specify the maximum number of messages to
store in the Alarm Setup editor.
For each message, the log file records the time the alarm was triggered and the time the
alarm was acknowledged (if it was acknowledged).