Alarm grid

Use the Alarm grid widget to display and manage alarms at runtime. View alarm information, acknowledge, confirm, shelve and unshelve the alarms.

Tip: The Alarm log grid widget displays alarm events recorded by the configured event logger, such as the Alarm History Grid. Use the Alarm History Grid with filter widget to filter logged data.

Overview

Each row in the grid indicates a change in alarm status. Acknowledge and confirm one or all alarms on the grid. The Alarm grid widget displays these columns of information:
Column Description
Timestamp Date and time of the last alarm event update.
Name Name of the alarm object that generated the alarm event.
Source variable Variable the event monitors.
Message Message associated with the alarm event.
Active Whether the alarm is:

Inactive

Active

Acked Whether the alarm is acknowledged or unacknowledged:

Unacknowledged

Acknowledged

Confirmed Whether the alarm is confirmed or unconfirmed:

Unconfirmed

Confirmed

Severity Level of alarm severity from 1 to 1000.

Runtime

You can show or hide the grid columns at runtime, see Manage data grid columns at runtime.