Configure an Alarm Configuration

The alarm configuration is where you specify which OPC subscription to be used and where you create action sets to be followed in AlarmWorX Multimedia. Each new database you create will have a default alarm configuration. This is the alarm configuration you should plan to use if you are just creating one alarm configuration for your computer to follow. If you create a new alarm configuration with a name other than "Default," you will also need to create a new node configuration and link it to your alarm configuration.

To add the OPC subscription to be used in your configuration, do the following:

Right-click the Alarm Configurations folder and select Configuration.
Select the OPC subscription from the drop-down list.
Click Apply.

The Accept alarms which are already acknowledged check box, when enabled, treats new alarms that have been previously acknowledged as if they weren’t acknowledged. This setting then processes previously acknowledged alarms so that they show up in the list of alarms for the operator to see. When this check box is disabled, any alarm that has been acknowledged is ignored during processing.