Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Alarms and Events Quick Start - Manual (Page 3)

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Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .iii
Preface What you need to get started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Required software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Recommended hardware and supported operating systems. . . . . . . . . . 2
Logix5000 controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Compatible firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Older controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
How to get the information you need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Special considerations for using this release of FactoryTalk Alarms and
Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Chapter 1 Overview of FactoryTalk Alarms and Events services . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Choosing between HMI Tag Alarm Monitoring and FactoryTalk Alarms and
Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Where to start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
FactoryTalk Alarms and Events components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
About monitoring for alarm conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
About software-based alarm monitoring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
About device-based alarm monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Choosing between tag-based and device-based alarm monitoring . . . . 14
Graphic objects in FactoryTalk Alarms and Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Chapter 2 Plan your system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Decide what type of application you are building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Decide what type of alarm monitoring you need. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
What you need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Follow these steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Install and activate FactoryTalk software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Typical stand-alone system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Install FactoryTalk software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Install Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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