Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Alarms and Events Quick Start - Manual (Page 5)

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Chapter 7 Set up graphic displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Before you begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
What you need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Follow these steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Create a graphic display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Create an Alarm and Event Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Create an Alarm and Event Banner display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Create a startup macro for the Banner display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Use color animation to indicate alarm state changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Next steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Chapter 8 Monitor and interact with alarms at run time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Before you begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
What you need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Follow these steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Create and then run a FactoryTalk View Client configuration . . . . . . . 97
Monitor alarms and events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Security for alarms and events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Acknowledge an alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Disable or enable an alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Suppress or unsuppress an alarm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Chapter 9 Set up historical alarm and event logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Before you begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
What you need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Follow these steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Confirm that the Microsoft SQL Server software is installed . . . . . . . 116
Add a database definition to your FactoryTalk system . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Associate a database definition with an alarm server . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Create an Alarm and Event Log Viewer display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Create a button to open the Alarm and Event Log Viewer display . 125
Create a startup macro for the Menu Bar display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
View historical alarm data in a FactoryTalk View SE Client . . . . . . . . 131
Run the application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131