Alarm Categories for an OPC Alarm and Event Server

There are three categories of CIMPLICITY alarm messages that are passed as OPC alarm messages.

Category

Used for

Level

Non-Boolean point alarms

 

Text messages come from the alarm strings definition used by the alarm.

Discrete

Boolean point alarms

 

Text messages come from the alarm strings definition used by the alarm.

System

All non-point alarms

 

Non-point alarms have a configurable severity. This severity is used by the OPC server as the sub-condition System severity.

Note: Existing non-point alarms have a default severity of 100.

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