Re: [foxboro] P92 Quad KVM Extension

  • From: Kevin Fitzgerrell <fitzgerrell@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:55:10 +0900

Thanks Terry,
I think we'll probably not go to the alarm printers, but I may look at
driving an external horn or light from within the logic.

The flashing button I can live with - we have a long way to go for alarm
management, the ops would think something was wrong if the button was not
flashing.

Cheers,

Kevin

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Doucet, Terrence <
tdoucet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Kevin,
>
> A method that I have seen used is a combination of CAD filtering (for
> display) and Alarm Printer per Alarm area.  The noise of the dot-matrix
> printer is used to alert the operator of a new alarm. Certainly not the
> greatest scheme and if the Operator leaves the CRT area briefly, he must
> check the CAD when he returns. CAD is used to ACK.
>
> Not a critical process and fairly slow reaction times, so this worked OK.
>  Flashing button is an annoinance.
>
> Terry
>
>
> ________________________________
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> From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Kevin Fitzgerrell
> Sent: Sat 2/14/2009 8:49 PM
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> Subject: Re: [foxboro] P92 Quad KVM Extension
>
>
>
> 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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