Re: [foxboro] AW: AW: format in Alarm Manager

>While this is satisfying as an answer, as a concept it is not.  Why do
>these messages go to the AM (which should only show alarms) at all if they
>are no alarms?  On the other hand, if they have to go to the AM then why
>not make them "operable" (e.g. some sort of quittable) by the AM?  In real
>life you always need assistance from someone with the appropriate
>privileges to make them go away since you don't want to allow the operators
>to clear alarms.

It is at the user's option to send them to the alarm page or not, using
Alarm Group and Group Device settings. Many sites do allow, even
expect the operator to clear alarms; that depends on the alarm handling
methodology of the particular operation.  Further, with the configurability
or programability of the Alarm Manager, it is possible to selectivly allow
clearing of alarms, say on alarm type.

In my humble opinion, Foxboro gets good marks for design of the alarm
manager.
However, all that grand design is made confusing and useless to the "average
user" by poor configuration tools and very poor documentation on operation
of
the Alarm Manager and its configuration.

William C. Ricker
FeedForward, Inc.
Marietta, GA, USA
wcricker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
770-426-4422

 
 
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