Upgrading from an Orion archive database

If your station is configured to archive all alarms (open and cleared) on a regular basis to a remote Orion archive database, that database more than likely contains open alarms. This procedure migrates a local file alarm database with a remote Orion archive database to a new local file alarm database for open alarms and a remote Orion alarm database for cleared alarms. Use this procedure if you currently have both a local file alarm database a remote Orion archive database.

Your station is licensed for the archive alarm feature and configured with the RdbmsNetwork. You have an OrionAlarmService in your station’s Services container that supports your remote Orion archive database. This database contains open alarms. You are working in Workbench and are connected to the station.
  1. Open the alarm palette and add an AlarmService to your Config > Services container.
    Temporarily you now have two alarm service components in your station.
  2. Copy the alarm classes and recipients from the current AlarmService to the new AlarmService.
    This sets up the new AlarmService with alarm priorities and recipients.
  3. Add an OrionArchiveAlarmProvider to the newly-added AlarmService and double-click the provider.
    The OrionArchiveAlarmProvider Property Sheet opens.

  4. Set Enabled to true and configure Rdb Ord to point to the remote Orion alarms database used by the OrionAlarmService.
  5. Expand Execution Time and configure when to trigger an archive of cleared alarms: Trigger Mode (frequency) and Time Of Day (time).
  6. Remove the original AlarmService by right-clicking it and clicking Delete.
    You are back to having only one AlarmService in the station, which is required.
  7. Save your changes and start or restart the station.
    The station opens with the new alarms database configuration.
  8. To move the open alarms from the remote Orion alarm database to the new file alarm database, right-click OrionArchiveAlarmProvider and click Actions > Import Open Alarms.
The new local alarm database now contains all open alarms and the remote Orion alarm database contains only acknowledged alarms and alarms that have transitioned to normal.