Set up the Alarms, Alarms Lists, and Alarm Banner Preferences

This section is for system administrators and high-level engineers who are setting up the preferences for Alarms, Alarms Lists, and the Alarm Banner on either a system-wide, client-specific, or user-specific basis (see Set up the List Preferences in the Geo SCADA Expert Guide to Lists).

Geo SCADA Expert is supplied with a set of predefined defaults for Alarms, Alarms Lists, and the Alarm Banner. These affect, for example, the system colors that are used to indicate that an item is in alarm. If required, these options can be changed from the defaults. Some of these options affect alarms on a system-wide basis, whereas other options can be specified on a per-client (workstation) basis, or on a per-user basis.

This section summarizes the properties you might want to consider when setting up:

• System-Wide Alarm and Alarms List Preferences
• Client-Specific Alarms List and Alarm Banner Preferences
• User-Specific Alarm-Related Preferences.

In addition to the above, a system administrator also needs to allocate the required Security Permissions to each User Account, User Group, and item in the database. This includes the permissions that determine whether alarms can be acknowledged, removed, and/or disabled. For further information, see Allocating Security Permissions in the Geo SCADA Expert Guide to Security.