Panel Name |
fwAlertConfigPopup.pnl |
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Introduction |
This panel is used to set up the alert configuration for one or many data point elements. If the panel is used for just one data point element at a time, the panel shows the current configuration of the alert config when loaded. |
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Instructions | When configuring the alert for a data point element (or elements) you should first check the "Configure" check box. Then the alert options will appear. For analog style alerts, you should first select the number of ranges
you wish to have in your alert handling. Then for each range you should
enter a description text in the left hand column and choose an alert
class from the drop down lists in the right hand column.
Between each range you need to choose a limit value. The limit values
should be entered in descending order as you go down the panel (see the figure below). For digital style alert, you need to enter a text for each state of the boolean value (0 and 1) in the left hand column and choose an alert class for the bad state from the combo box in the right hand column. An alert class must be chosen - it can not be left blank. Then, by using the radio buttons in the middle column, you indicate whether 0 or 1 is the valid (good) state. An example of a valid digital alert configuration is shown below. The alert classes define the severity of the alert and come in acknowledgeable
(ending with Ack) and non-acknowledgeable (ending with Nack) types.
It is essential that one range has no alert class. This is the valid
(good) range. The alert classes should increase in severity as you
move further away from the valid range. The severity order is Warning
-> Error -> Fatal (lowest to highest). So, for example, if the range
above the valid range has an Error class (e.g. fwErrorAck) then the
range above that can not have a Warning class (e.g. fwWarningAck). An example of a valid analog alert configuration is shown below. Finally, if you want the alert configuration to be active, make sure that the "Alert Handling ON" checkbox is checked. If you uncheck this, then the alert configuration will be stored but the alert handling will not be active. Then press OK or Apply to save the configuration. To delete the alert configuration on the data point element(s), uncheck the "Configure" check box and then press either OK or Apply. |
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Restrictions | This panel is only for configuring analog and digital style alerts. Summary alerts are configured with another framework panel. Integer, unsigned and float data point elements support analog alerts and boolean data point elements support digital alerts. If you load the panel for a collection of data point elements, the
panel will not allow you to configure them if they contain a mixture
of elements that require digital and analog alerts. You can press the
"Select Elements" buttons to choose which data point elements
to configure from the list that was passed to the panel. |
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Dollar Parameters | ||
Name | Description | |
$sDpe | The name of the data point element(s) to configure. If you wish to use the panel for multiple data point elements, you
should pass a list in the same format as the PVSS dyn_string, i.e.dpe1
| dpe2 | dpe3 |
Required |