FuelsManager Defense
34 Administrator Manual
Categories
FuelsManager provides two types of categories, alarms and tags.
Alarm categories allow the administrator to designate which alarms a particular
user group will be notified of. In addition, the administrator can designate which
printer alarms of a particular category should be printed to. For larger systems it is
important to categorize alarms such that only the users with responsibility for a
particular area of the facility are notified of alarms for that area. Without this
categorization users would be consistently bothered by ‘nuisance’ alarms for
areas over which they have no control.
Tag categories allow the administrator to further segregate the FuelsManager
system by defining which database points a particular user groups can see. In this
manner the administrator can deploy a system with a central database containing
all tanks for the entire facility, but then segregate the tanks based on logical areas
of plant (i.e. West Tank Farm, East Tank Farm and Docks).
Note! The process of defining
which database points are in which
alarm / tag category takes places
as part of database configuration
and is detailed in the Database
section.
FuelsManager allows the creation of up to 32 alarm and 32 tag categories. Once
defined alarm and tag categories are assigned to a user group, under the Access
branch, and only users in those groups have access to the tags in the categories.
Categories can be assigned to more than one group, allowing an overlapping of
alarm and tag categories. From our example above, we created categories for
West Tank Farm, East Tank Farm and Docks – typically these might be assigned
to user groups of the same name. We could then create another user group called
Managers and assign all three categories to this group. In this way the Managers
user group would be able to see all tanks across the entire facility.
Working with Alarm Categories
Alarms can have a defined report manager, printer, start time, print interval, and
the choice to enable the print.
Creating, Deleting or Renaming Alarm Categories
In this example we will Create an alarm, but you can also follow the instructions to
delete or rename an alarm.
Step-By-Step
• Click to expand the Categories tree
• Select Alarm under the Categories
• From the Actions menu select the Add command
• Enter the name of the alarm
• Close the Security dialog box
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