Adding a Comment to an Alarm

You add a comment to an alarm to help others understand the problem that caused the alarm or how the alarm was solved.

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You can add a comment to an alarm that can be helpful the next time the same alarm is triggered.

Other people can read your comment in WorkStation. You can add a comment to an alarm that is assigned to yourself or to someone else.

Your comment is marked with your user name and the time you made the comment.

In some cases, adding a comment to an alarm is optional. In other cases, you are required to add a comment when you acknowledge the alarm.

You add a comment using WorkStation or WebStation. In WorkStation, you can view a comment added to an alarm.

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Figure: The Add comment dialog box

To add a comment to an alarm

In WorkStation or WebStation, in the Alarms pane, right-click the alarm and then click Add comment .
Type the comment.

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Click OK .