Alarm faults and quality indicators

Alarm faults and their qualities appear in the
Quality Details
row in the
Details
pane of an alarm table. An alarm indicates good quality if all alarm conditions (High High, High, Low, Low Low, ROC Positive, ROC Negative, Deviation High, Deviation Low, TRIP, and TRIP_L) are in good quality.
Fault
Cause of Fault
Quality Indicator
Affected alarm conditions
No fault
N/A
Good
All
Status from controller not read yet
Abnormal Conditions
Bad
All
Instruct fault only (specific fault not set)
Configuration
Bad
All
In faulted
Configuration
Bad
All
Severity invalid
Configuration
Bad
All
Alarm limits invalid
Configuration
Bad
High High, High, Low, Low Low
Deadband invalid
Configuration
Bad
High High, High, Low, Low Low
ROC Positive limit invalid
Configuration
Bad
ROC Positive
ROC Negative limit invalid
Configuration
Bad
ROC Negative
ROC period invalid
Configuration
Bad
ROC Positive, ROC Negative
Old Logix firmware
Abnormal Conditions
Bad
All
Controller in Program mode
Abnormal Conditions
Bad
All
Major controller program fault (recoverable)
Abnormal Conditions
Bad
All
Communication failure (last value known)
Abnormal Conditions
Bad
All
Communication failure (no last value known)
Abnormal Conditions
Bad
All
Connection with controller lost
Abnormal Conditions
Bad
All
Major controller program fault (unrecoverable)
Abnormal Conditions
Bad
All
Failed to subscribe to controller
Abnormal Conditions
Bad
All
Detected hazard of overwriting old notifications in Alarm Log
Abnormal Conditions
Bad
All
Arithmetic overflow
Abnormal Conditions
Bad
All
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