L-INX User Manual 89 LOYTEC
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5.3.2 Historical Alarm Log
The alarm summary of the alarm objects contains a live list of currently active and
acknowledge-pending alarms. As soon as an alarm becomes inactive and has been
acknowledged, it disappears from the alarm summary. To store a historical log of alarm
transitions an alarm log is utilized. An alarm log can log transitions of one or more alarm
objects.
The alarm log is always local and stored as a file on the device. The size of an alarm log is
configurable. The alarm log operates as a ring buffer. As soon as its size limit is reached,
the oldest alarm log records are overwritten by newer alarm transitions. The alarm log is
available on the Web UI or can be uploaded from the device as a CSV file. The CSV file
can also be used as an e-mail attachment.
5.3.3 Scheduling
Schedulers are objects that schedule values of data points on a timely basis. A scheduler
object is configured by which data points it shall schedule. This configuration is done by the
system engineer once, when the system is designed. The configuration of the times and
values that shall be scheduled is not part of that initial configuration and may be changed
later. This distinction has to be kept in mind.
A scheduler object sets its data points to predefined values at specified times. The function
of the scheduler is state-based. This means, that after a given time, the scheduler maintains
this state. It can re-transmit the scheduled values as appropriate (e.g., when rebooting). The
predefined values are called value presets. A value preset contains one or more values
under a single label (e.g., ―day‖ schedules the values { 20.0, TRUE, 400 } ).
Which value preset is scheduled at what time is defined through a daily schedule. The daily
schedule defines the times and value presets in a 24-hour period. A schedule typically
contains daily schedules for the weekdays Monday through Sunday. See Figure 74 for an
example of a daily schedule.