Remove an Alarm

You can use the Remove or Remove Alarms options to remove an acknowledged alarm. (A further option, Remove with Comment can also be used—see Remove an Alarm with Comment).

WARNING

LACK OF ALARM NOTIFICATION

Use the Remove and Remove Alarms options with care. Removing an alarm using either of these options will stop the alarm displaying on the system. Before using either option, we strongly recommend that you perform a risk analysis to ensure that the removal of existing alarms will not pose a danger to people or equipment.

Failure to follow these instructions can result in death, serious injury, or equipment damage.

When the Remove or Remove Alarms option is selected, ClearSCADA removes the alarm from the Alarm Banner and Alarms Lists. Additionally, the alarm flag is cleared from other displays, such as Mimics (see Alarms on Mimics).

Removing the alarm creates a record in the Events List (see Events in the ClearSCADA Guide to ViewX and WebX Clients).

A new alarm will be raised if the condition that caused the removed alarm clears, but later recurs. For example, if the level in a water tank drops below the level that caused a removed alarm, but then fills to reach that level again, another alarm will be raised.