1. You could capture alarms sent to printers using hiperterminal, the resulting file is ascci. 2. The aplicacion /opt/aim/bin/apitst ->option 700 ->option 11, enable you to dump alarms from historian to an ascii file. I din?t try automating it, but if you pipe its standard input from a file with options you want it could work. Hope it helps Regards Claudio A. Perez Control Systems Eng. PROFERTIL S.A. (54) 291 459-8139 cperez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.profertil.com.ar -----Mensaje original----- De: Penndorf, Rocco (RP) [mailto:RPPenndorf@xxxxxxx] Enviado el: Miercoles, 28 de Julio de 2004 04:14 Para: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Asunto: [foxboro] Extracting Alarm History to ASCII File Hello List, does anybody know a way how to automatically extract alarm history to an ascii file. I know how to do it using the alarm history display save option but I would like to make a crontab job saving those informations on a timeframe basis. Best Regards Rocco Penndorf ____________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ Sr. Process Control Engineer / Acrylic Acid Plant DOW - Boehlen Tel.: +49 (0) 34206-8-7524 Fax: +49 (0) 34206-8-7522 E-Mail: rppenndorf@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: http://www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave Esta informacion es privada y confidencial y esta dirigida unicamente a su destinatario. Si usted no es el destinatario original de este mensaje y por este medio ha tenido acceso a dicha informacion, por favor elimine el mensaje. La distribucion o copia de este mensaje esta estrictamente prohibida. Esta comunicacion es solo para propositos de informacion y no debe ser considerada como propuesta, aceptacion ni como una declaracion de voluntad oficial emanada de Profertil S.A. La transmision de e-mails no garantiza que el correo electronico sea seguro o libre de error. Por consiguiente, no manifestamos que esta informacion sea completa o precisa. Toda informacion estara sujeta a alteraciones sin previo aviso. This information is private and confidential and intended for the recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. This communication is for information purposes only and shall not be regarded neither as a proposal, acceptance nor as a statement of will or official statement from Profertil S.A. and/or subsidiaries and/or affiliates. Email transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. Therefore, we do not represent that this information is complete or accurate and it should not be relied upon as such. All information is subject to change without notice. _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: http://www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave