Overview – Alarm Logging

The OAS Alarm Logging feature is included as part of the Alarms .NET and Web Alarms products. If you want to develop server or desktop applications using WinForms, WPF or the Dotnet SDK then you would choose the Alarms .NET product. On the other hand, if you want to develop web-based applications with HTML and JavaScript the you would choose the Web Alarms product.

Both products give you the ability to configure alarm thresholds on any of your tags. This includes Digital, Low, Low Log, High, High High and Rate of Change alarm types with configurable parameters such as threshold value, delay, deadband, priority, alarm text, alarm group and more. By default, OAS stores the run-time alarm state in memory and allows you to configure alarm buffering in case of restart. OAS also provides alarm acknowledgement features through the alarm controls and its APIs.

The Alarm Logging feature allows store alarms in a database and thus gives you a history of alarms that you can then query. It supports the following providers: SQL Server, Access, Oracle, ODBC, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MariaDB and SQLite. In addition to this you can also log to CSV files.

The alarm logging works by configuring one or more Logging Groups. Each logging group is essentially a filter and any alarms that match the filter will be logged. This includes parameters such as alarm state, alarm type, priority and alarm group. You can create as many logging groups as you need.

View the following for a quick tutorial on alarm logging: Videos – Alarm Logging



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