Alarm Priority Tag Type

The alarm priority tag type is used to specify different alarm indicators (such as the frequency of the alarm tones, the tone cycle, alarm priority, and alarm highlight color) for alarms of different priorities and categories. An alarm priority tag is associated with an alarm tag so that when the alarm tag is triggered, the sound and color indictors configured for the alarm priority tag with which the alarm is associated will be activated.

By default, every standard VTS application you create includes 5 alarm priority tags. These tags and their properties are described in the following table:

 

Name	AlarmPriority0	AlarmPriority1	AlarmPriority2	AlarmPriority3	AlarmPriority4
Area	System	System	System	System	System
Description	No Alarm	Critical Alarm	High Alarm	Warning Alarm	Notice
Priority	0	1	2	3	4
Priority Color	White	Red	Orange	Yellow	White
Tone 1 Freq in Hz	0	2000	1800	1600	1400
Tone 2 Freq in Hz	0	1000	1000	1000	1000
Priority Descriptor	No Alarm	Critical	High	Warning	Notice
Tone Cycles	-1	-1	-1	-1	0
Tone 1 Period in Secs	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
Tone 2 Period in Secs	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5

Alarm Priority Tag Type Characteristics

Tag Browser Name: Alarm Priority

Database Table Name: AlarmPriority

Type: Attribute

Tag Group Memberships: Digitals, Numeric

Log Enabled Variables: Value

Native Drawing Methods: None