Audit and diagnostic messages

In addition to historical alarm and event messages,
FactoryTalk Alarms and Events
 generates two other types of messages for logging:
  • Audit messages.
  • Diagnostic messages, which include system-generated information, warning, and error messages.
Audit messages
FactoryTalk Alarms and Events
 generates
audit
messages
when operators interact with alarms. Example: An operator acknowledges an alarm in the Alarm and Event Summary--this creates an audit message.
FactoryTalk Diagnostics
 routes all audit messages to the Diagnostics Local Log and to the
FactoryTalk
 Audit Log for use with FactoryTalk AssetCentre software.
The following operations generate audit messages:
  • Adding, modifying, deleting alarm definitions or messages in a tag-based alarm server.
  • Enabling, disabling, acknowledging, resetting, suppressing or unsuppressing alarms.
  • Successfully performing alarm operations by writing to control tags.
  • Changing the configuration of a tag-based alarm server using an import operation.
  • Changing the properties of an alarm server or database definition.
  • Changing security settings.
Diagnostic messages
In a
FactoryTalk
 system,
Rockwell Automation
 software products monitor system activity and generate detailed
diagnostic
 (information, error, and warning)
messages to inform operators and plant engineers about routine operations and system errors.
FactoryTalk Diagnostics
 collects these messages from all participating products throughout a
FactoryTalk
 system and routes them to the Diagnostics Local Log on each computer, and the Diagnostics ODBC Log.
The following operations generate diagnostic messages:
  • Failed reset of the operation on a latched alarm.
  • Failed write to a control tag because the user does not have appropriate security permissions.
  • Lost connection to an alarm and event history database.
  • Lost connection to a redundant server.
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