Alarms & Conditions Client Overview

Menus

• File

• • Exit: Quit the application

• Server:

• • Discover: See UA Discovery.

  • Connect: connect to the currently displayed endpoint.

  • Disconnect: disconnect from a connected server.

• Conditions:

• • View: See View Event Details (below)

  • Refresh: Refreshes the current display.

  • Set Area Filter: See View Event Details (below).

  • Condition Type: a filter option for specific types of condition. Options include: [All/Dialogs/Alarms/Limit Alarms/Discrete Alarms]

  • Minimum Severity: a filter option for specific levels of severity. Options include: [All/Low/Medium/High]

  • Enable: Not implemented.

  • Disable: Not implemented.

  • Add Comment: See Add Comment (below).

  • Acknowledge: Acknowledges an alarm, and also requests a comment (see Add Comment below).

  • Confirm: Confirms an alarm (see Add Comment below).

  • Respond: See Responding to an Alarm (below).

  • Shelving: Provides options for the shelving of alarms. Options include: [Un-shelve/Manually Shelve/One-shot Shelve/Timed Shelve]

• View:

• • Audit Events: See Audit Events (below).

• Help:

• • Contents: Opens this help documentation.

Banner

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Endpoint Bar (below banner)

There are 3 key areas in the endpoint bar:

• Endpoint Url: the endpoint URL (of a Server) to connect to.

• Use Security: (checkbox) if checked will use a secure session, if unchecked then will use a raw/insecure session.

• Connect button: clicking this will attempt to connect to the specified endpoint.

Alarm Notifications (bottom)

A simple log output of alarms received by the client: