Alarm Type; Alarm Source; Alarm Severity; Alarm Reporting - Extron electronics VN-Matrix 300 User Manual

Alarm Type

This drop down lists the available alarm error conditions for all units. Alarm error conditions
are divided into two broad categories
Alarm errors that occur on an Encoder
z
Alarm errors that occur on a Decoder
z
In addition there is one alarm error that only occurs on the device that is configured as the
system controller.

Alarm Source

Alarm filters may be set for either a single, specific unit or for all VN-Matrix 300 devices in
the system.

Alarm Severity

Alarms may be set to one of three severities.
Alarm Severity Description
Critical
Warning
None

Alarm Reporting

An alarm condition may be either reporting or not-reporting.
A reporting condition will cause an SNMP trap to be sent to an SNMP client whenever that
alarm condition is triggered.

Applying Alarm Filter Settings

Changes made to the filter settings may be applied by clicking
z
button.
Changes made will be lost after a power down unless the
z
make these changes permanent.

Alarm List

The Alarm list provides information on all alarm events that are currently active. The list is
refreshed each time the
Alarm events that are listed may be sorted by Type, Raise time, and Severity.
Position the mouse pointer over the required sorting heading (Type, Raise time, or Severity)
and left click to change the list order. The list will be refreshed each time the sorting criteria
is applied.
Figure 47.
When triggered, a critical alarm illuminates the red LED on the front
panel of the affected unit. In addition, the normally open contacts of the
relay accessed via the COMM 2 connector will be closed.
The traffic light indicator for the device (Device list) will be shown in red.
When triggered, a warning alarm will result in the traffic light indicator
for the device (device list) showing in amber.
A setting of None effectively filters the alarm condition. The alarm will
still appear in the alarms list but it will not affect any colored indicators.
Alarms tab is selected.
Alarm List Events
Apply filter change
Save all tab is clicked to
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