Notifying Alarms - Tait TB8100 User Manual

Notifying Alarms

Notifying Over the Air
TB8100 Service Kit User's Manual
The Notification Methods form lets you configure the way the base station lets
you know over the air and over the line that there is an alarm.
Important: Configuring these notification methods does not enable
notification. This is done by Task Manager tasks that must be
configured for your system.
Base stations with an Alarm Reporting license can send alarms to an Alarm
Center and status messages (which contain the current state of all alarms and the
alarm log) via email.
The Service Kit lets you configure the way the base station notifies alarms using
the base station's own transmissions. To start and stop the over-the-air alarm,
set up Task Manager statements. See
Use CWID
Tip:
method. Task Manager can disable CWID on startup, and then
enable it when particular alarm conditions occur. See
Actions" on page 188.
To configure the over-the-air alarm
1. Select Configure > Alarms > Notification Methods.
2. In the Over the air area, Type box, select an alarm type. Currently, only
Pip Tones are available. A pip tone is a 600 Hz tone with a duration of 200
ms.
3. In the Pip method box, select an option that specifies how the pip tones
are transmitted.
Option
Tail transmission
Periodically with Tx
Periodically with no Tx
"Over the air alarm actions" on page
as an additional over-the-air alarm notification
Description
A single pip tone is transmitted at the end of every
transmission.
A pip tone is transmitted at the beginning of each
transmission and regularly during the transmission at
the interval specified by the Pip interval box.
A pip tone is transmitted regularly when the base
station is not otherwise transmitting. Pip tones are
transmitted at intervals specified by the Pip interval
box.
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