Re: [foxboro] Alarm Capture

The application Visual Alert, sold by Total Technologies Solutions, Inc
(www.2tsi.com) is a very inexpensive printer substitute program.  Since
there are no priorities in the alarm message, Visual Alert can be set up to
key on any text within a message to set the color of the alarm line on its
display.  With a little effort, you can set up any keyword in your alarm
messages to trigger these different colors.  An example I have seen used is
to put the priority in the ANM  or DESC parameter as 'PRI1'.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <gop@xxxxxxxx>
To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 4:25 AM
Subject: [foxboro] Alarm Capture


>
> Is there a user option to configure the alarm printouts in Fox I/A  ?
>
> The alarm printing format is embedded somewhere in the base software .
>
> We have tested various alarm capture packages to convert the alarm text
dump
> to useful data,
>
> but so far we could not come up with a perfect solution . There are ways
to
> extract the alarms
>
> from the Alarm History using AIM*AT packages , but this is not good
> replacement for the
>
> real-time alarm printers . At the same time , alarms captured from a
printer
> port does not
>
> contain alarm priority , which is an important information for analysis.
>
> Is there a way to customize the format in which the alarm printers print ?
> Can we include
>
> the alarm priority as well in the printout ? How does the printer
recognize
> 1st priority alarms
>
> and print them in a different color ? If this is a printer command, could
we
> extract this
>
> information from the COM ports ?
>
> ________________
>
> Thanks &Regards,
>
> GOPS
>
> Aramco Mobil Refinery
>
>
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