Managing The Conditions; Enabling Or Disabling A Condition - Honeywell Series A User Manual

5. Configuration
5.6. Configuring Advanced Alarming
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Click Save.
ATTENTION
While exporting/importing the device, the configured alarm conditions are
also exported/imported automatically.

Managing the conditions

After you invoke the configuration dialog box, you can manage the conditions by
creating, editing, and deleting the conditions. In the Criticality Mapping tab, invoked
from the Configuration dialog box, you can view the list of conditions assigned for a
particular criticality. Therefore, you can manage the conditions created for each device.

Enabling or disabling a condition

You can disable an active alarm condition, which causes it to clear the corresponding
alarm from the Alarm Summary. Similarly, enabling a condition, which consists of at
least one data bit string, generates the corresponding alarm.
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ATTENTION
By default, all the conditions are disabled in the Configure Advanced
Alarming dialog box.
When you enable/disable alarm conditions, the device instance updates
the changes from the template as long as the alarm conditions are not
manually changed directly on the device instance.
When you enable/disable alarm conditions on the device instance, the
device instance stops updating changes from the template. However, if
you perform an "Upload" and "Update to Project" from the Monitoring
view, and if the project instance matches the template, the device
instance again starts updating changes from the template. Therefore
caution must be exercised when enabling/disabling alarm conditions on
the device instance as the instance will start replicating the template.
For example, consider a scenario where an engineer changes the value
on the device instance (to have it different from the template).
Coincidentally, the engineer sets the device instance value same as the
template even though the intention was not to follow the template. In such
a case, the device instance value changes when the value is changed in
the template. However, the engineer would be assuming that the value
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