Hmm...I didn't know that the priority did not come out on the printer. Not really sure why this would be the case, as the Alarm Manager and legacy historian know about it. Is this true of any non-AM alarm device? To do long-term alarm logging, I have some scripts to read and parse the almhist file that the legacy historian uses for a circular alarm history buffer. These were based on some code I found on the Cassandra site and in some Foxboro HH documents, but I've had to modify them several times as I've come across weird data the historian puts in this file for certain alarm types, and to add additional features (like putting the year in the timestamp). It's not real-time (it runs out of cron every hour), but suits my needs. I hope to get this into some kind of database (either my own or some alarm-management product's) for better analysis capabilities. As for how the alarm management vendors determine priority, most of the packages I've seen also import part or all of the system configuration (either periodically from iccprt dumps or live via OPC) and get the priorities from that. Corey Clingo BASF Corporation "Ghodhbani, Hafedh" <Hafedh.Ghodhbani@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 01/19/2007 04:32 AM Please respond to foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [foxboro] Priority in Alarm messages Hello, We are sending plant alarms continuously to a PC for analysis. We would like to add the alarm priority to the alarm message text. Can you please advise how to proceed. For your information, this is the alarm message we want to modify the structure: PK2103:PC21103.PK2103 HP N2 PURGE GAS LOABS 01-19-07 09:35:45:2 0.05BAR ( 0.05) LOW ALARMS ALM Regards Lead C&I Eng BG Group Tel:+21674259250 ex 574 ______________________________________________________________________ BG Energy Holdings Limited Registered in England & Wales No: 3763515 Registered address: 100 Thames Valley Park Drive Reading, Berkshire RG6 1PT UK Telephone: +44 (0)118 935 3222 Website: http://www.BG-Group.com This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. As this e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information, please advise us immediately if you are not the named addressee or the person responsible for delivering the message to the named addressee. The contents should not be disclosed to any other person nor copies taken. _______________________________________________________________________ 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: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave