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Alarm limit deadband
The optional alarm limit deadband can be
used to change the "return-to-normal" value for comparison limit
conditions.
Once the limit value is violated, the tag value must move outside the
bounds of the limit value +/- the deadband in order to return to normal.
Deadband Examples:
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Condition: >, Value: 50, Deadband:
5
The condition will be TRUE when the value is > 50, but it must then
move below 45 to be FALSE
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Condition: <, Value: -20, Deadband:
3
The condition will be TRUE when the value is < -20, but it must then
move above -17 to be FALSE
Alarm/Point priorities
Each monitored point (and its set of alarm
conditions) can be now be assigned a priority number from 1...10.
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1 = High priority
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10 = Low priority
The priority setting is used throughout
TopView
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Display
The TopView Window, HTML output, and Remote Viewer can
optionally display the priority value for each monitored item in a
new column.
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Filter
The TopView Window and the Remote Viewer can filter the displayed
items using the new priority setting: show items with priority <=
"Max Priority" where "Max Priority" is set by the user.
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Notification queue processing
The priority setting will also affect the processing of the
Email, Modem, and Voice notification queues. The items with highest
priority will be processed before items with lower priority.
Contact Aliases
A Contact Alias "points to" an existing
Contact. Once a Contact Aliases is created, it can be used like a
Contact to designate a notification recipient.
When TopView is running and needs to
notify a recipient that has been specified using a Contact Alias name,
the Alias will be resolved to the Contact that it is currently assigned
to and the appropriate field of the assigned Contact (email, phone,
pager) will be used.
Contact Aliases can be used in situations
where recipients may change and you would like to minimize the
configuration changes required. If you specify notification recipients
using Contact Aliases instead of Contacts, you will only need to
re-point the Contact Alias when the recipient changes.
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