HMI Alarm Manager counters provide you with the capability to review a detailed performance of the alarms in one or all projects running on your system. Any one counter may raise a red flag that the system is generating more alarms than anticipated. When all of the counters are reviewed, the possibility that there is a problem in the system can be evaluated.
Accumulated totals since a CimView session started
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For |
Counter |
Counts the Number of: |
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A |
Alarms Generated |
Alarms that have been generated and reset. In the case of reset, the message must be re-sent to clients to change state Example The same alarm may have been generated 100 times since the project started. The last instance of the alarm being generated has not been deleted from the Alarm Manager. The Alarm Count is one (1). The Alarms Generated count is 100. |
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A |
Alarms Acknowledged |
Alarms that have been acknowledged. |
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A |
Alarms Reset |
Alarms that have been reset. |
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A |
Alarms Deleted |
Alarms that have been manually deleted. |
Indicators of current performance
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For |
Counter |
Displays the |
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N |
Alarm Count |
Current alarms that display in the Alarm Manager. The generated alarms are either acknowledged or not acknowledged. They have not been deleted. |
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N |
Update Queue Length |
Requests to generate alarms. The alarms are put in a queue. Then the queue is processed. This can cause the alarm manager to back up. The Update Queue Length should always be around 0. |
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N |
Application Queue Length |
Applications can make requests to the Alarm Manager, for example, for the current list of alarms. The queue that forms before requests are processed should be a small number. |
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N |
PTMRP Queue Length |
Data comes from the point manager. The queue that forms before the data is processed should be a small number. |
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N |
Clients |
The number of clients that are currently requesting alarm data and have not yet received it. Clients include both allocated processes and alarm interested processes. |
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N |
Alarms Generated/sec |
The number of alarms that are being generated per second. This counter tells you if more alarms are being generated than you anticipated which, in context of other counters, could indicate a problem with the system. |
Expertise Code
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N |
Novice |
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A |
Advanced |
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E |
Expert |
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CIMPLICITY counters. |
