Document Outline

• Contents
• Preface - What you need to get started
  • Required software
  • Recommended hardware and supported operating systems
    • Logix5000 controllers
    • Compatible firmware
    • Older controllers
  • How to get the information you need
  • Special considerations for using this release of FactoryTalk Alarms and Events
• 1 - Overview of FactoryTalk Alarms and Events services
  • Choosing between HMI Tag Alarm Monitoring and FactoryTalk Alarms and Events
  • Where to start
  • FactoryTalk Alarms and Events components
  • About monitoring for alarm conditions
    • About software-based alarm monitoring
    • About device-based alarm monitoring
  • Choosing between tag-based and device-based alarm monitoring
  • Graphic objects in FactoryTalk Alarms and Events
• 2 - Plan your system
  • Decide what type of application you are building
  • Decide what type of alarm monitoring you need
  • What you need
  • Follow these steps
  • Install and activate FactoryTalk software
    • Typical stand-alone system
    • Install FactoryTalk software
    • Install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express
• 3 - Define device-based alarms in Logix5000 controllers
  • Alarm buffering during loss of connection to the controller
  • Before you begin
  • What you need
  • Follow these steps
  • Define a digital alarm
    • Configure the alarm and download to the controller
  • Define an analog alarm
    • Configure the alarm and download it to the controller
• 4 - Add a device server for Logix5000, PLC-5, or SLC 500 controllers
  • Before you begin
  • What you need
  • Follow these steps
  • Add a device server
• 5 - Add an OPC Data Server for third-party controllers
  • Before you begin
  • What you need
  • Follow these steps
  • Add an OPC Data Server to an application
• 6 - Add a tag-based alarm server for Logix5000, PLC-5, SLC 500, or third-party controllers
  • Before you begin
  • What you need
  • Follow these steps
  • Create an application
  • Add a data server
  • Add a Tag Alarm and Event Server
  • Define alarm conditions
  • Next steps
• 7 - Set up graphic displays
  • Before you begin
  • What you need
  • Follow these steps
  • Create a graphic display
  • Create an Alarm and Event Summary
  • Create an Alarm and Event Banner display
  • Create a startup macro for the Banner display
  • Use color animation to indicate alarm state changes
  • Next steps
• 8 - Monitor and interact with alarms at run time
  • Before you begin
  • What you need
  • Follow these steps
  • Create and then run a FactoryTalk View Client configuration
  • Monitor alarms and events
    • Security for alarms and events
    • Acknowledge an alarm
    • Disable or enable an alarm
    • Suppress or unsuppress an alarm
• 9 - Set up historical alarm and event logging
  • Before you begin
  • What you need
  • Follow these steps
  • Confirm that the Microsoft SQL Server software is installed
  • Add a database definition to your FactoryTalk system
  • Associate a database definition with an alarm server
  • Create an Alarm and Event Log Viewer display
    • Create a button to open the Alarm and Event Log Viewer display
  • Create a startup macro for the Menu Bar display
  • View historical alarm data in a FactoryTalk View SE Client
    • Run the application
• A - Getting started with language switching
  • Before you begin
  • What you need
  • Follow these steps
  • Create device-based alarm messages
    • Translate alarm messages using import and export
    • Translate alarm messages in RSLogix 5000 v.16 or earlier
    • Translating alarm messages using RSLogix 5000 v. 17 or later
  • Create tag-based alarm messages
    • Entering text strings in FactoryTalk View Studio
  • Add languages to the application
  • Add buttons to a graphic display to switch languages at run time
  • Enter alarm messages in other languages
  • Create a Display Client configuration file to test alarm messages
  • Test alarm messages at run time
  • Summary and tips for setting up language switching
    • Text that supports language switching
    • Text that does not support language switching
    • Alarm and Event Summary and Alarm and Event Banner
    • Alarm and Event Log Viewer
• B - System performance and limits
  • Controller specifications
  • Tested system limits
  • Tested topology
• C - Install FactoryTalk Alarms and Events manually
  • Summary of steps
  • Step 1: Confirm that the FactoryTalk Services Platform is installed
  • Step 2: Install FactoryTalk Alarms and Events
• D - Install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express
  • Operating systems
  • Summary of steps
  • Step 1: Open the Redist folder
  • Step 2: Install the .NET Framework and other prerequisite software
    • .NET Framework
    • MDAC 2.8
    • MSXML6
    • Windows Installer 3.1
  • Step 3: Run the SQL Server Install batch file (not the .exe)
  • Step 4: Install Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express
    • Error message
  • Step 5: Configure the Windows firewall
• E - Use an existing Microsoft SQL Server database
  • Supported SQL Server databases
  • Remote connections to the SQL Server database
  • Summary of steps
    • Step 1: Install Microsoft SQL Server Management Tools
    • Step 2: Specify Mixed Mode authentication for the SQL Server database
    • Step 3: Configure TCP/IP protocol for the database
    • Step 4: Enable the SQL Server Browser service
    • Step 5: Configure the Windows Firewall
• F - Alarm time stamping
  • Overview of Logix clocks
    • Coordinated System Time (CST)
    • Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
    • Local Time (Wall Clock Time)
  • FactoryTalk Alarms and Events: features for alarm monitoring
    • ALMD and ALMA alarm blocks
  • Example
• G - Time synchronization
  • Coordinating multiple controllers’ wall clocks
  • Install the Logix5000 Clock Update Tool
  • Start the Logix5000 Clock Update Tool
    • Starting the Update Tool automatically
  • Using the Logix5000 Clock Update Tool
  • Create a synchronization schedule
    • Remove a synchronization schedule
    • Modify a synchronization schedule
    • Enable or disable a synchronization schedule
  • Add devices
    • Remove a device
    • View details about a device
  • Assign devices to synchronization schedules
  • Synchronize devices manually
  • View the log file
    • Change the location of the log file
  • Time stamps with tag-based alarms
  • Supported devices
• H - Reference for building a distributed system
  • Installing FactoryTalk Alarms & Events software
  • Typical distributed system on a network
• I - Language identifiers for language switching
  • Language identifiers
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