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12.5 Setting the alarm log properties

12.5 Setting the alarm log properties
In addition to the current alarms, an alarm log showing the alarms occurred hitherto is
displayed on the user interface in the form of a list. The properties of the alarm list can be
changed in the MBDDE.INI file.
Table 12-5
Section
Interrupts
TextFiles
HelpContext
DEFAULTPRIO
PROTOCOL
KEYS
For further details of the file entries, refer to
References:
/BN/ User guide: OEM package for MMC
Section: [Alarms]
The settings in this section define the following alarm list properties:
● TimeFormat
● MaxNo
● ORDER
Example
Example for the section: [Alarms]
● Time format: day.month.year hour:minute:second
● Maximum size of alarm list: 50
● Order: New alarms are to be put at the end of the list
500
Sections of the MBDDE.INI file
Description
General information of the alarm list: For example, time/date format of
messages
Path/file specification of alarm text files: For example UserPLC =
<Installationspfad>\dh\mb.dir\myplc_
Name and path of help files: E.g., File0 = hlp\alarm_
Priority of various alarm types: e.g. POWERON = 100
Properties of the log: E.g., File=.\proto.txt <Name and path of the log file>)
Information about keys that can trigger the alarms: E.g., Cancel = +F10
<Deletion of alarms with the key combination Shift+F10>
Here, the pattern is entered which is to be used for output of date and time. It is the same
as the CTime::Format of the Microsoft Foundation Classes.
Defines the maximum size of the alarm list.
Defines the sequence in which the alarms are sorted in the alarm list:
– In FIRST, the alarms with the latest dates are placed at the top of the list,
– In LAST, the new alarms appear at the end.
[Alarms]
TimeFormat=%d.%m.%y %H:%M:%S
MaxNr=50
ORDER=FIRST
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