Alarm counters provide a way for you to determine the general alarm state of a single SCADA server, or areas within that server. They indicate how many tags on a node are in alarm, how many of these alarms are CRITICAL, HIHI, HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW, LOLO, and INFO priority, and how many are acknowledged or unacknowledged. Alarm counters do not span nodes. However, if you want to get a view of your entire system, you can use VBA scripts or mathematical expressions to combine alarm counter information from two or more nodes. You can access alarm counters locally or remotely. You can also use alarm counters to animate and color process graphics to alert you to an alarm. For example, you can configure an object to display a certain foreground color when there are unacknowledged alarms in a specific alarm area. Alarm counters allow you to:
FeaturesThe following list summarizes the alarm counters features:
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