Alarm Groups

Choosing on 'Admin', 'Server Preferences' then 'Alarm Groups' will bring you to the alarms set-up screen. In this screen the colours of the alarm icons can be set. When the settings have been adjusted click OK for the new setting to take effect.

All alarms raised in the flowcomputers are assigned to one of three groups:

Field	Description
System	Shows any alarms that are specified as System alarms within the flowcomputer. This usually means alarms that are not specifically raised by a process fault or a fault within the flowcomputer e.g. it could be a fault on an instrument in the field.
Process	Shows only those alarms that are specifically raised due to a fault condition in the process, e.g. a measured temperature value exceeding a limit alarm value.
Computer	This is an alarm that has occurred due to a malfunction of the flowcomputer itself, e.g. an analogue input range fault, computer memory fault, etc.
Acquire	Acquire™ may raise its own alarms due to internal server or communications faults.

Each of these groups can be assigned a different colour to make them easily identifiable on the alarms screen, audit report and on the alarm dock, see Alarm Annunciation.