Using the Alarm Displays
The Web Workspace Tools menu’s Alarm Displays sub‑menu provides options to view current alarms (Alarms... option), devices in abnormal states (Abnormal Devices... option), and alarm history (Alarm History... option).
Understanding the Alarms List
To display active alarms, select Alarms... from the Web Workspace Tools menu. The Alarms (Main) tab will open.
The Alarms tool lists active alarms in your system. The types of alarms will depend on what Oracle Utilities Network Management System applications and integrations are implemented. The Oracle Utilities Network Management System can be configured to handle how the Alarms tool behaves, such as whether the tool stays open or rises to the top of other windows when you get receive a new alarm. These options are set (by an Administrative User) using the Configuration Assistant's Event Management Rules tab (see Using the Event Management Rules Tab on page 24-16).
• To keep the Alarms tool open, it is possible to prevent the main alarm list from being closed by setting the NMSAlarmsAllowMainAlarmListClosure SRS rule to no.
• To add further visibility to new alarms, the main alarm list can be configured to automatically receive focus when a new unacknowledged alarm is raised. This can be achieved using the NMSAlarmsDisplayUponNewUnackAlarm SRS rule
The Alarms tool has three main components: