Alarm Group Tutorial

On top of alarms being automatically grouped together in the Grouped Alarms Report template creators can now create custom alarm groups to further group related alarms together.

Grouped alarms are treated as a single alarms with multiple alarm levels.

Here is how to group alarms. Consider, for example, a template that contains related alarms:

Let say we want to group the "Voltage down" and the "Low battery" alarms together. We first create a group to hold the alarms (The "New Alarm Group" command is available in the left orange menu next to the Values tab).

If the name and description fields are left blank, the group will take its name and description from the datatag.

The group's display level is calculated from the individual alarms in the group. You can choose to have it set to the latest alarm event display level received in the group or the highest non dismissed alarm level. Select one of the two modes.

Setting it to the "Latest" mode allows alarm levels to go down if the situation corrects itself without having to manually clear the alarm.

The datatag names are company wide. This provides more flexibility if we want to change this group's name on all devices later and also provide's consistency when filtering reports by datatags on fleets of devices. Once the group is saved. You can edit the datatag name and description by clicking on it:

Then edit each alarm you would like in the group:

The result should look like:

Now when you open an equipment dashboard. Instead of showing the alarms separately, they will be displayed in one row. If you click in the row, you can see the alarm events that determine the current group alarm level.