Alarm logging provides you with a straightforward process for creating and maintaining records to analyze the alarm state of equipment and processes in your system. As a result, alarm logging helps you determine if action is required to repair or maintain your system.

The Database Logger enables you to:

Log data about selected alarms or all alarms to an alarm log table.

Save the log files, until specified criteria occur.

Have the logged data discarded, based on specified criteria.

Save the logged data to another file for future analysis.

You can display, print and analyze that information in a report that you create or in an Excel CIMPLICITY Alarm Report that is included in CIMPLICITY..

Note: Data logged for alarms includes:

Alarm ID,

Time the Alarm was Generated,

Alarm Class, Resource,

Alarm Message,

Alarm comments that are entered in the Alarm Viewer.

Logged By

Other optional attributes that you select.

Steps to configure alarm logging include:

Step 1	Review system alarms included in the alarm log table.
Step 2	Add additional alarms to the alarm log table.
Step 3	Configure alarm logging properties.
Step 4	Configure logging conditions for a single alarm.

Note: You cannot copy or create a second ALARM_LOG.

More information

Database Logger configuration overview.

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