FuelsManager Defense
viii Administrator Manual
Administering Alarms.............................................................................................. 69
Alarms.................................................................................................................... 70
Events ............................................................................................................. 70
Alarm & Event Logs ........................................................................................ 70
Pre-configured alarms .................................................................................... 71
User Defined alarms ....................................................................................... 71
Configuring alarms ......................................................................................... 72
Creating global, local alarms and templates .................................................. 75
Global alarm definition ............................................................................. 75
Creating and modifying global alarms from the Points menu ................. 75
Alarm Assignments dialog box ................................................................ 76
Local Alarm limits .................................................................................... 76
Alarm limit enable .................................................................................... 77
Alarm template ........................................................................................ 77
Sharing global alarms .............................................................................. 77
Alarm graphic and alarm help ................................................................. 77
Assigning an alarm graphic .................................................................... 78
Alarm/event category .............................................................................. 78
Event definition ........................................................................................ 78
Build An alarm process ........................................................................... 78
Alarm Test Parameter .............................................................................. 79
Build an alarm test ................................................................................... 79
Alarm test value ....................................................................................... 80
Edit alarm test .......................................................................................... 81
Importing and exporting global alarms .......................................................... 81
Import global alarm ................................................................................. 81
Export global alarm ................................................................................. 81
Databases ................................................................................................................... 83
Introduction to databases.................................................................................... 84
Point Types............................................................................................................ 85
Tank Point ....................................................................................................... 85
Input Point ....................................................................................................... 85
Output Point .................................................................................................... 85
Triggered Point ............................................................................................... 85
Point attributes...................................................................................................... 86
Engineering units ............................................................................................ 86
Scale limits ...................................................................................................... 86
Data source .................................................................................................... 86
Manual input ............................................................................................ 87
Calculated value ...................................................................................... 87
Local input ............................................................................................... 87
OPC ......................................................................................................... 87
Data format ..................................................................................................... 88
Modifier assignment ................................................................................ 88
Alarms and events .......................................................................................... 88
Tag category .................................................................................................. 89