Re: alarm handler silence one hour button

[James F Ross <james.falconer.ross@gmail.com>]

Either that or adding in a similar possibility in the alarm handler
config file would be great!  Personally I'd prefer adding something in
the config file to simplify starting up the alarm handler, but
whichever you deem best would be fine.  Either would work.
James

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Janet Anderson <jba@aps.anl.gov> wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> I am now making some changes to the alarm handler so I will look into making
> this change. How about specifying the silence minutes as an alh command line
> option? The message next to the silence button could contain the command
> line minutes with the default (no command line option) message "Silence 60
> minutes". We also need a command line option specification, e.g.
> "-silenceMinutes 10".
>
> Janet
>
>
> On 03/26/2013 01:43 PM, James F Ross wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>> I'm not sure if this is a standard feature on the epics alarm handler
>> in general, or if it is something that is addable, but the alarm
>> handler at STAR has a button that allows you to silence the alarm
>> handler for one hour.  I was wondering, would it be possible to change
>> this to, say, silence for 10 minutes?  That would be much more useful
>> to us.  I can't find anything on changing this in the manual, but
>> perhaps there is something I can add to the configuration file?
>> Thanks very much!
>> James