Adding comments to an alarm
If required, you can add comments to alarms in the Alarm Summary. For example, you might
need to keep a record of your actions in response to an alarm.
If you are operating a Console Station, you can only add comments to an alarm when the
Experion server is available.
To add a comment to an alarm
1. Select the alarm to which you want to add a comment.
2. If the Details Pane is not visible, click the Show Details Pane button.
3. Click the Comments tab.
Any existing comments that are added to the alarm are displayed.
4. Type in your comment and click Save Comments.
Viewing an alarm video clip
If your Experion has the Honeywell Digital Video Manager installed as part of the system,
you will be able to view any video clip that may be linked with an alarm or event.
A video icon in the first column of the Alarm Summary indicates that a video clip is linked to
the alarm.
To view an alarm video clip
1. Double-click the video clip icon associated with the alarm listed in the summary.
The video clip associated with the alarm will be displayed in a popup window.
Alarm list overflow
The alarm list (which contains alarms/alerts that are shown in the Alarm, System and Alert
summaries) has a limit of 14999 alarms. When this limit is reached, an event is logged in the
Event Summary.
When this limit of 14999 alarms has been reached, this is known as an Alarm list overflow
state. This is considered an abnormal situation that may occur after a network failure when the
system is flooded with alarms/alerts, or during the commissioning of the system.
While in this state, older, less important alarms/alerts are selectively removed to make way for
new alarms/events as they are generated; these removed alerts are known as discarded events
and are shown in the Event Summary as DISCARDED. Also, 'Overflow' appears in the
appropriate Status Bar box to indicate that an alarm/alert has been removed to make way for
the new alarm/alert.
The following figure shows what happens when an alarm is removed from the list.
Responding to alarms
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