Re: [foxboro] P92 Quad KVM Extension

  • From: Kevin Fitzgerrell <fitzgerrell@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:49:17 +0900

Thanks Alex!
I'd gotten a presentation before MM was released and I'm not sure the
presenter was entirely clear on what it would and would not do.

Looks like it's CAD filtering for me then.

Cheers,

Kevin

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Johnson, Alex P (IPS) <
alex.johnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Kevin,
>
> Re: For the smaller control stations where I don't have a central
> control room I'm going to try the V8.x alarm management software and
> direct alarms to specific displays (at least that's the plan).
>
>
> Kevin, the Message Manager doesn't do what you think it does.
>
> The MM subscribes to the messages from the CPs and relays them to a
> large number of destinations, but there is only one such destination per
> WP/AW.
>
> That is, the messages received by a process whose name I forget and are
> stored in the Alarm Manager's database. This this database is shared by
> all Alarm Managers in the WP.
>
>
> CP            WP
> CP ==> MM ==> WP
> CP            WP
>
>
> In the WP:
>
>                                            AM
> Msg -> <rcvProc> -> MsgDB -> AlmSrvrTask -> AM
>                                            AM
>
> So, he MM can't do what you are saying, it can't send the message to a
> DM (or its associated AM instance). They go into the message database
> and are served up by the Alarm Server Task (ast) from that pool to each
> AM.
>
>
> The only option is to apply filters to the CAD display.
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex Johnson
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