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Alarm Threshold query.

Hi all,

is it possible to filter out SIS Hardware Critical alarms (12, 13, 14, 15) from alarm banner?. tried setting its Alarm Threshold to 15 but still getting an Annunciation. it does filter out all other alarm priority except for Critical. 

Thanks.

GeloCortez

• 24 Feb 2016 9:21 AM
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• Kim Van Camp

  

  • 24 Feb 2016 1:07 PM

  Can you confirm you took the following steps to create and configure a workstation settings file?

  1) Use DeltaV Operate (Configure) to open UserSettings.grf for some script editing. 

  a) If this picture does not exist, it can be created by saving a copy of User_Ref.

  b) You can have a settings file for a particular workstation, by giving the file a name {computer name}_Settings.grf

  2) Right mouse click in the open green space of the picture to access the context menu, then select Edit Script

  3) Use CTRL-F to open the search dialog and search for "threshold".

  4) Follow the instructions to set up the banner thresholds, noting the following:

  a) You will need to uncomment one line and comment-out another

  b) You will need to uncomment the thesholds for the six alarm sources and set them as you'd like, noting that the priority must be greater than the number value entered to appear in the banner.  I.e. a setting of 3 allows all alarms of 4 and above to appear on the banner and a setting of 15 eliminates alarms from that source completely ... or at least should unless there is something special about the SIS Hardware thresholds that I'm unaware of.

  5) Save and close the project.

  Let us know if you tried this.  In parallel I'll touch base with the DeltaV Test organization to see if there is perhaps something special about prority 15 for SIS alarm sources.  If there is, I'll come back with a follow-up post.

   

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• Kim Van Camp

  

  • 24 Feb 2016 7:10 PM

  In reply to Kim Van Camp:

  Just a quick follow-up note to say that we went into the test lab and were able to successfully filter out priority 15 SIS hardware alarms on a V13.3 system using workstation settings as I previously described. It should work the same on previous releases. Good luck.

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• GeloCortez

  

  • 25 Feb 2016 3:26 AM

  In reply to Kim Van Camp:

  Hi Kim,
  
  just tried on my machine again and still getting annunciation for Critical alarms.
  
  here's the script from Usersettings.grf
  
  '********************************************************************************
  'Enabled INIT_ALARM_THRESHOLD on 26 Feb 2010 to display "ghost" Hardware Alarms
  'Darwin Estabillo
  
  #Const INIT_ALARM_THRESHOLD = 1 'Enables Initialzation of Alarm Threshold Defaults
  ''********************************************************************************
  '********************************************************************************
  
  'These values control the alarms that will be displayed
  'Uncomment the following lines, and set the value to the desired threshold.
  'in the alarm banner.
  'default values :
  'Const PROCESS_THRESHOLD_DEFAULT = 3
  'Const DEVICE_THRESHOLD_DEFAULT = 7
  'Const HARDWARE_THRESHOLD_DEFAULT = 7
  'Const SIS_PROCESS_THRESHOLD_DEFAULT = 3
  'Const SIS_DEVICE_THRESHOLD_DEFAULT = 3
  Const SIS_HARDWARE_THRESHOLD_DEFAULT = 15
  
  '********************************************************************************
  '********************************************************************************
  '********************************************************************************
  'Set HARDWARE_THRESHOLD DEFAULT to 3 to display ALL Hardware Alarms
  'Darwin Estabillo 26 Feb 2010
  Const HARDWARE_THRESHOLD_DEFAULT = 3
  '********************************************************************************
  '********************************************************************************
  '********************************************************************************
  
  
  #If INIT_ALARM_THRESHOLD Then
  If Not DeltaVAlarmThreshold Is Nothing Then
  DeltaVAlarmThreshold.InitDefaultAlarmThresholds PROCESS_THRESHOLD_DEFAULT, _
  DEVICE_THRESHOLD_DEFAULT, _
  HARDWARE_THRESHOLD_DEFAULT, _
  SIS_PROCESS_THRESHOLD_DEFAULT, _
  SIS_DEVICE_THRESHOLD_DEFAULT, _
  SIS_HARDWARE_THRESHOLD_DEFAULT
  End If
  #End If
  'end of Alarm threshold initialization

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• GeloCortez

  

  • 25 Feb 2016 3:36 AM

  In reply to GeloCortez:

  V 12.3 by the way

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• GeloCortez

  

  • 25 Feb 2016 4:41 AM

  In reply to Kim Van Camp:

  it was actually filtered out from the banner but still getting the sounds. the sounds should be as per banner am I right?.
  
  tested with my VMware v12.3, ill try to use the other machine.
  
  Thanks

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