System Settings Properties - General tab

The settings in this area determine which events are sent to the event log.

FactoryTalk Alarms and Events

generates audit messages for operator actions, such as acknowledging or disabling alarms.

FactoryTalk

Audit events are always generated and can be routed to the

FactoryTalk

Audit Log and the Local Log of

FactoryTalk Diagnostics

.

Select this check box to generate tracking events for operator actions and send them to the alarm and event history log.

Use this setting to configure whether changes in the alarm state for suppressed alarms are recorded in the alarm and event history log. This setting affects all alarm and event servers in a

FactoryTalk

system.

Select this check box to record suppressed alarm state changes in the alarm and event history log.

Clear this check box to prevent recording these changes in the log.

Use this setting to configure the way changes in alarm quality (faults) are recorded in the alarm and event history log:

Select this check box to send changes in quality for only active alarms to the alarm history log. This prevents the log from filling with non-critical events.

Clear this check box to send changes in quality for all alarms (active or otherwise) to the log.

The settings in this area determine when events are sent from the alarm server buffer to the

FactoryTalk Alarms and Events

client objects. When the system reaches either the event buffer size or event buffer time requirement defined in this area, all queued events are then sent to attached clients, such as the Alarm and Event Summary. Whichever of the two limits is reached first determines when queued events are sent to clients. System-wide settings for event buffering apply to all alarm servers defined in all applications in a

FactoryTalk Directory

.

The number of events that alarm servers queue before sending the events on to attached clients. Set as a value between 1 and 100 (default is 10).

The number of seconds that alarm servers queue events before sending the events on to attached clients. When the first event enters the queue, the queue 'timer' is started. When the time value is reached, the contents of the queue is sent to attached clients. Set as a value between 0.5 and 5.0 seconds (default is 0.5 seconds).

Settings in this area determine how the severity value of alarms are translated in priorities. Alarms and events can be assigned a particular severity value--an integer from 1 to 1000. Severity values are grouped into four priorities, corresponding to these four levels: Urgent, High, Medium, and Low. This makes it easier to filter and sort events and to distinguish among levels of urgency.

Define alarm priority settings by filling in the values in the

Low

column. You cannot leave gaps or overlaps in the settings.

The default alarm priority settings are: