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Hello everyone,

My system is DV 11.3.1 with DV analyze 2.0

Our site is working on creating a solution for nuisance alarms that should not be alarms in the first place due to the very long time required to have a relevant consequence or solution, but that are still important enough as to desire to have them reported somewhere where they can be easily acknowledged and solved by personnel on a different group, and not the console operator (which, as said, can't or shouldn't do anything about these alarms within their shift).

At this point you guys probably have noticed that what we desire is pretty much having a working mechanism to receive what ISA 18.2 defines as alerts.

I was thinking that this may be a good case for exploiting the functionality of the default LOG (P3) alarms, which as explained in the Books Online are not really managed as alarms by the system, but that create events registering every time that the limits associated to them are exceeded. I hoped that we could simply set all alarms that fall in the category described in the previous paragraph as LOG (P3) alarms and then just have shift operators print the Log events report from Delta V analyze once per shift, so I configured a couple of LOG alarms and set them in such a way that the variables associated to them surpassed the limits to verify that the corresponding records were created in the system event log. The expected events regarding the log alarms used for this little test seemed to be working properly (I could confirm that every time that the LOG alarms were triggered a corresponding event was created), but then my problem is that they are not being shown as log alarms in Delta V analyze. I've check the corresponding time frames and there's nothing. In fact, there's nothing at all in the Log alarm section in DV Analyze, which by itself doesn't surprise me because as far as I know there are no other LOG alarms on the system except those just created by me, but for some reason this section of DV Analyze is not showing the Log alarms that I've recently created and triggered on purpose.

I would appreciate any direction you can give on this matter. DV Analyze is working fine in collecting all other "normal" alarms. There's something that I must be doing or understanding wrong about Log alarms, even though I've checked everything many times. If you think that there's another way to fulfill our need with this matter, other than what I've thought, I will be also glad to listen. If there's any further info that you need to be able to help, please let me know.

Many thanks!