Changing an Alarm's status

The alarm's status indicates which state it is in. Alarms have the following predefined statuses:

An alarm's status can be changed:

Manual status changes

The following table shows the allowed manual alarm status changes:

From:

To: (Allowed status changes)

Active

Acknowledged, Closed, Cancelled by User

Acknowledged

Active, Closed, Cancelled by User

Closed

Active, Acknowledged

Cancelled by User

Active, Acknowledged

To manually change an alarm's status, you need to do the following:

  1. Open the alarm's edit window and select the Header tab.

  2. Click the Status drop-down and select the required status.

  3. Click the Save Changes () button to save.

Note: the relevant fields on the Header tab will be updated to indicate the user who changed the status, and when it was changed.

Automatic status changes

The following table shows the possible automatic status changes:

From:

 To:

Condition

Active

 Closed
  • If the alarm's alarm type is configured to automatically close alarms when their corrective work orders reach a specific status, OR
  • If a new monitoring point reading is captured and it is within the monitoring point's bounds

Closed

 Active

If a new corrective work order is added to the alarm after the it has been closed.

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