Setting up a remote Orion alarm database

Open alarms need to be easily accessible in a station and cleared alarms need to be archived for historical and regulatory purposes. This procedure sets up a remote Orion alarm database for cleared alarms and configures when to back up these alarms from the local file alarm database to the remote Orion alarm database. Use this procedure if you currently have only the default local file alarm database in your station.

Your station is licensed for the archive alarm feature. You are working in Workbench and are connected to the station. You have a remote Orion database connected and ready to use for archiving cleared alarms.
  1. Open one of the relational database palettes based on your type of database.
    The palettes are:

    rdbHsqlDb supports the default HSQL database that comes by default with a controller.

    rdbMySQL supports a MySQL database.

    rdbOracle supports an Oracle database.

    rdbSqlServer supports a Microsoft Sql Server.

  2. Add the RdbmsNetwork to your station’s Config > Drivers container.
    The framework uses a network and device model to configure an RDBMS.
  3. Add the database component (HsqlDbDatabase, MySQLDatabase, OracleDatabase or SqlServerDatabase) to the RdbmsNetwork.
    This defines the type of remote Orion alarm database on your network.
  4. Configure the database component (device) to connect to your remote RDBMS server.
  5. Open the Orion palette and add an OrionService component to the Config > Services container.
  6. Open the AlarmOrion palette and add the OrionArchiveAlarmProvider to the AlarmService and double-click the provider.
    The OrionArchiveAlarmProvider Property Sheet opens.

  7. Set Enabled to true and configure Rdb Ord to point to the RDBMS you configured earlier.
  8. Expand Execution Time and configure when to trigger an archive of cleared alarms by setting: Trigger Mode (frequency) and Time Of Day (time).
  9. Save your changes and restart the station.
This configures the file alarm database in your station to store open alarms and to periodically transfer cleared alarms to the new remote Orion alarm database.