There are three categories of CIMPLICITY alarm messages that are passed as OPC alarm messages.
Category |
Used for |
Level |
Non-Boolean point alarms |
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Text messages come from the alarm strings definition used by the alarm. |
Discrete |
Boolean point alarms |
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Text messages come from the alarm strings definition used by the alarm. |
System |
All non-point alarms |
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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. |
About the OPC Alarm and Event Server and client |