Alarm services

Each station may contain a single AlarmService that coordinates the routing of alarms within the framework, and maintains the alarm database.

The standard AlarmService stores alarms persistently on the station host (controller). The AlarmService is available in the alarm palette.

If you do not have an AlarmService in your active station, drag a copy of it from the alarm palette.

The AlarmService may contain one or more alarm classes. An alarm class may route alarms to one or more alarm recipients. The routing process involves notifying the recipient of the alarm and receiving back from the recipient an alarm acknowledgement. The default view (wire sheet view) of the AlarmService makes it easy to visualize the relationships between the alarm class and the alarm recipient. These relationships are created by linking the alarm class to the alarm recipient. In addition to the wire sheet and property sheet views, the system provides several other AlarmService views.