After creating threshold alarm templates,
you can apply the templates to Zones or to specific Locations. You can apply and enable up
to six threshold alarm templates on one Location, to accommodate different monitoring needs
at different times.
To apply a threshold alarm template to a
Location, you require Configure Alarms permission or higher for the selected Location.
In Sites Manager on the Zones and
Locations tree, select a Zone or a Location (hold the CTRL key to select
multiple Zones/Locations).
Threshold alarm levels are ignored if
they fall outside the Location's linked device measurement range.
Select Manage > Add
Threshold Alarms. Complete the fields in the Add
Threshold Alarm window:
Location
Verify that you are adding a threshold alarm template to the correct Location(s).
If you selected a Zone, the threshold alarm template is applied to all Locations in
the Zone.
Status
Set status to Enabled to actively monitor thresholds on selected Location(s). If you do not want the
threshold alarm settings activated on this Location until a later time (you may have
more configuring to do), set as Disabled.
Send to device
Choose whether to send threshold level information to an
RFL100-series or HMT140-series data logger. Select the threshold levels to display
using the checkboxes in the Alarm on Device column. Only two levels can display on an HMT140 device (1 high and 1 low).
Device password
If the selected Location is linked to an HMT140 device with password
functionality enabled, type the password to apply threshold settings.
Measurement type
Select the type of conditions being measured at this Location.
Threshold
alarm template
Select an available threshold alarm template. The threshold template details
appear in the grid.
For each alarm level, update threshold alarm settings:
Alarm on Device
For RFL100 and HMT140 series data loggers. Choose which threshold level(s) to
display (an HMT140 can accept 2 levels, one high and one low; RFL can accept 4
levels). For areas with several devices, you may want to display only the most
critical threshold levels. If the device is moved, threshold levels remain enabled
on the device.
The Send to device option must be enabled to allow threshold levels to alarm on a device.
Alarm
Notification Template
Select an alarm notification template to use if this threshold is exceeded. Alarm
notification templates define who is notified and when.
Message or Comment
All threshold alarm notifications use content specified in viewLinc's
default notification content templates. Use this field to insert custom text in
place of the [AlarmMessage] and [Comment] macros embedded in the content templates.
For example, you may want to add a description of an action required to resolve a
common issue, "This pump tends to cause this alarm, make sure to reset it before
acknowledging."
Select Save.
To copy a threshold template to other Locations using the same measurement type:
On the Threshold Alarm Settings tab, select a threshold.
Select Copy selected threshold alarm
settings.
On the Zones and
Locations tree, select a Zone or Location.
On the Threshold Alarm Settings tab, select Paste to the selected Zone or
Location.