Automatic Diagnostic Event Summary

The
FactoryTalk
 Automatic Diagnostic Event Summary object subscribes to and displays diagnostic events collected by Rockwell Automation controllers via Ethernet. It is enabled by the Automatic Diagnostics feature.
Automatic Diagnostics is supported only on
Compact GuardLogix®
5380,
CompactLogix
 5380,
CompactLogix
 5480,
ControlLogix
 5580,
GuardLogix
 5580 controllers, and
ControlLogix
 5590 controllers, and the firmware revision must be 33 or later.
With the Automatic Diagnostic Event Summary, you can suppress, unsuppress, filter, and sort diagnostic events at runtime. The Automatic Diagnostic Event Summary consists of four parts. These components can be configured at design time in the
Automatic Diagnostic Event Summary Properties
 dialog box:
  • Toolbar
    The toolbar is displayed at the top of the Automatic Diagnostic Event Summary. Use the toolbar to perform operations such as suppress diagnostic events, filter the events displayed, or sort the events. Configurable properties include the toolbar controls at the top of the object, the caption text or tooltip text of toolbar buttons, and the appearance of the text on the display.
  • Diagnostic list
    The top part of the Automatic Diagnostic Event Summary displays a list of diagnostic events divided into columns. The columns across the top of the list represent data fields on the Automatic Diagnostic Event Summary display and allow the operator to sort the data displayed. Configurable properties include the sorting and resizing runtime behavior, order, width, heading text, or alignment of columns, and the appearance of the text on the display.
  • Details pane
    The bottom part of the Automatic Diagnostic Event Summary displays information about the event that is selected in the event list. Configurable properties include display of the details pane, the height of the pane, and runtime adjustment behavior.
  • Status bar
    The status bar at the bottom of the Automatic Diagnostic Event Summary shows the status of the connections to alarm and event servers, the total number of events, filter name, and applied sorting option if any is applied to the event list. Configurable properties include the display of the status bar, items shown on the status bar, and the tooltip text of status bar items.
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