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CHAPTER 6 OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
Figure 6.7: Flowchart of the signalling of an event message to an external signal destination
The following principles govern the way event messages are signalled to an external signal destination:
• Individual event messages are not signalled if they occur at short intervals. The event messages are
stored temporarily for 5 minutes and then sent together to the external signal destination.
• If over a period of one hour an attempt is made unsuccessfully to send the event messages to the
external signal destination, the signalling period is extended from 5 minutes to 4 hours. As soon as
the event messages are successfully output at the external signal destination, the time period is
reset to 5 minutes.
• If over a period of 1 hour an attempt is made unsuccessfully to send an event message to an external
signal destination, the number of dialling attempts is reduced from 5 to 2. As soon as an event
message has been successfully sent, the number of dialling attempts is increased to 5 again.