On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 07:23 -0500, Randy Flood wrote:
> ALH has a feature where you can set the beep severity for the entire
> alarm handler or individual PV's. The alarm will still show up for minor
> alarms, but you don't have to hear them. There are also the silence for
> one hour and silence forever options so that the alarms are visible, but
> not beeping.
>
There is also the HYST field in the record to take advantage of.
Also, the "masking" capability of the alarm handler seems to be well
thought out.
Thanks,
Ernest
> Randy
>
> Terry Carlino wrote:
>
> > As an AlarmHandler user it has always struck me that there should be a
> > better way to manage alarms. In the real world it is quite common to
> > have a device sitting just on the edge of the MINOR alarm point,
> > creating nuisance alarms. We do not generally manage alarms by
> > actively changing HIGH or LOW, since these are set by system
> > experts. This leaves the user with the choice of disabling the alarm,
> > which means that if the device reaches the MAJOR parameter no alarm
> > will be heard or dealing with the nuisance alarms. Bad enough when a
> > single channel behave such. When you have thousands of channels, not
> > uncommon for a few to have this problem, especially during times of
> > general machine instability, such as start up. It would be nice to be
> > able to separately acknowledge or bypass MINOR alarms, a kind of "yeah
> > we know we need to look at you, you're alright for now call us when
> > you get to the MAJOR setpoint.
> >
> > Terry
> >
>
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