Alarms and alerts 9410 series
2. Open the Setup Assistant for your meter.
3. Navigate to Alarming > Digital Input.
4. Configure the digital input alarm settings by selecting an input and clicking Edit.
Some settings are not configurable and are grayed out.
5. Click Save to save the changes to the meter.
Parameter Value/Range Description
Input Input On/Input Off Specifies the input state/alarm behavior:
• Input On: the alarm is on when the digital input is on.
• Input Off: the alarm is on when the digital input is off.
Force Off Checked/Unchecked Forcing the alarm off disables all functions of the associated input.
To stop an alarm from being displayed without affecting digital input features, set the
alarm priority to Info Only.
Label String value When available, lets you modify the default label so it more clearly identifies the
alarm. Letters, numbers, and underscores are permitted. Spaces are not permitted.
Alarm Priority None, Info Only, Low,
Medium or High
Specifies the priority level of the digital input alarm. To disable the alarm, set priority
to Info Only.
Custom Priority 0-255 Select custom priority to view and configure the event priority of the event associated
with the alarm. The event log cutoff value is displayed for reference; event priorities
above the cutoff are stored in the meter’s event log.
Alerting
An alert is an external notification produced by the meter to indicate changes, for
example, a change of state for a digital input, or a power quality event such as a sag or
swell.
Alerts are generated when a pulse or trigger that is configured to indicate the alert
condition activates. You can configure alerts to send notification emails or messages to
your energy management system through your meter’s existing Ethernet
communications connections. You can configure alert messages as a simple text string
or you can also include device information. You can configure the alert’s priority so that
alerts are also recorded in the meter’s event log.
You can configure multiple alerts on a single meter, each having different activation
triggers, messages and/or transmission types. For instance, you can have two alerts,
one generating an email, the other sending a message to your energy management
system, but using the same trigger conditions; or you can have two alerts with different
conditions that send two unique emails to two different email addresses. You can also
generate alerts based on triggers from devices connected to your meter.
Creating alerts is an advanced feature that requires familiarity with ION architecture
and your power system and communications network. To create an alert, you must
configure the Alert module using a configuration tool. You must also configure your
device’s communications as needed to send the alerts, such as configuring your
meter’s SMTP settings and connecting it via Ethernet to an SMTP mail server in order
to send an alert by email.
Go to www.usa.siemens.com/pds to see the ION meter alerts technical note for
detailed information on creating and configuring alerts, and the ION Reference for
detailed information about the Alert module and its operation.
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