Hi,
I have a couple of questions, in the process history viewer, what is ALARMS.MACK / OPERATOR / NEW VALUE = 1 telling me? is it that the alarm mute button has been pressed or that it has been acknowledged by my operator?
also how can I log in the process history viewer when the ACK ALL / SILENCE HORN / DISABLE HORN buttons have been pressed on the alarm banner at the bottom of the screen?
thx in advance
Lee.
MACK is the alarm field allowing you to acknowledge all of a module's alarms simultaneously.
From BOL article "The ALARMS parameter"
...0 (NO) is the initial value after download.
1 (YES) acknowledges all alarm parameters in the next execution cycle and resets to 0....
To audit clicks of the buttons you cite, the simplest thing you can do is create a module with three parameters, ACKALL, SILENCEHORN, DISABLEHORN, and insert frswritevalue functions in the beginning of each of the scripts for the corresponding alarm banner buttons that sets/resets the parameter value. This will trigger the event chronicle to record a parameter change when those buttons are pushed.
I thought there was a way to skip the module and just write an event directly to the chronicle via operate, but I can't seem to find it.