When the Alarm Summary feature is enabled, alarm summary data is stored in alarm summary files which are completely separate to Event Journal, Configuration Change and Historic Data files. They include detailed information about the current and historic alarms on your system (see Alarm Summary in the ClearSCADA Guide to Alarms).
ClearSCADA can interface natively with various Wonderware applications, including Alarm Adviser. You can Use Wonderware Alarm Adviser to Analyze ClearSCADA Alarms. On systems on which the application is used, the ClearSCADA Collector for Alarm Adviser can collect alarms from ClearSCADA using either OPC AE or the Alarm Summary means of data collection. For more information, see the documentation provided with Alarm Adviser and its ClearSCADA Collector.
To use the Alarm Summary means of data collection, the Alarm Summary feature has to be enabled in ClearSCADA.
To enable or disable the Alarm Summary feature:
- Access the ClearSCADA Server Configuration Tool.
- Expand the Historic Configuration branch.
- Select the Alarm Summary entry.
- Either:
- Select the Enabled check box in the Alarm Summary section to allow ClearSCADA to record alarm summary data in the historic database.
Or:
- Clear the Enabled check box in the Alarm Summary section if your system is not required to record alarm summary data.
- Apply the changes to the server.
If you have enabled the Alarm Summary feature, you can view alarm summary data by selecting the Display Alarm Summary pick action for a database object Group (see Display an Alarm Summary for an Item or Group in the ClearSCADA Guide to Alarms).
You can also view alarm summary data in a Queries List or via QueryPad (by editing the SQL of a List so that the list gets its data from the CDBAlarmSummary table). Alternatively, you could create a Mimic that uses expressions to get data from those tables.