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How to auto export alarm summary daily?

I am working on trying to auto export alarm summaries on a daily basis. I was successful in creating an automatic task through the task scheduler to be able to export the alarm data using the Alarm Summary Utility tool on the command line with the switches which are available. The problem that I am facing is that there isn't a switch which will give me all of the occurrences of the alarms. I only get the last occurrence for each alarm and I'd like to see how many times each alarm got triggered along with time stamps. Is there an easy way to be able to do this without third party interventions?

• alarm summary utility
• DeltaV
• auto alarm export

Abhinav Thakur

• 12 Dec 2017 2:46 PM
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• MCrisler

  

  • 12 Dec 2017 2:59 PM

  Do you have Excel with the DeltaV Add-in? You can configure a daily event chronicle export using reporter and filter it for alarms. If you haven't used it before, there's a set of articles in the configuration chapter of Books Online that explains it.

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• Abhinav Thakur

  

  • 12 Dec 2017 3:05 PM

  In reply to MCrisler:

  We don't have Excel installed on the Pro Plus machine but I'll have to find out if we can do that without issues. Is there another way besides the excel add in?

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• Andre Dicaire

  

  • 12 Dec 2017 3:47 PM

  In reply to Abhinav Thakur:

  As MCrisler mentions, the Event Chronicle database (Ejournal), is where a complete of alarm occurrences is captured. The Alarm Summary tool only includes current alarms and there states on the particular workstation, based on the assigned Plant Areas of the user/workstation. So you will need to extract that information from the EJournal SQL Database.
  
  DeltaV Analyze is a software product designed to interact with the Ejournal database and provides the required reporting of alarm system performance according to ISA 18.2. It extracts all alarm activity so you can see not only alarm counts, but alarm duration, operator response time, Alarm activity by operator span of control, bad actors and categorizes the various types of alarms and events. As you know an alarm generates multiple records over time, from initial activation, acknowledgement and clearing of the alarm. Analyze finds these records to provide more insight into the alarm system performance. Building all this capability in a home grown system will be difficult, and who will maintain it? I'd recommend moving to a supported software like Analyze.

  Andre Dicaire

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• Bentronic

  

  • 10 Aug 2021 2:40 PM

  I have achieved this by writing some PS Scripts to query the EC database directly for alarms with the criteria I need for reporting.

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