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How to

How to


Products: AS-B, Enterprise Central, Enterprise Server, AS-P, Virtual Project Servers
Functionalities: Alarms
Product version: 3.2, 3.3, 2022
10/15/2020

Creating a Category

You create a category to group alarms so that alarms are more easily identified.

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​You can group together alarms in categories to simplify the identification of the alarm. When the alarm is triggered, the category name is displayed together with the alarm in the Alarms pane, Events pane, Alarm Views, and Event Views. Each alarm can belong to two categories.

Example 1:

You create a category called 'Building A' and add all alarms represented in the building to this category. Another example could be that you create a category called “Door alarm” and select this category for every door alarm in the system.

Example 2:

You create a Category 2 called 'Alarms to Enterprise Central' on an Enterprise Server. You then create an alarm decoration rule and configure the Category 2 of the alarm decoration rule to 'Alarms to Enterprise Central'. On Enterprise Central, you configure an alarm filter to show alarms where the Category 2 property is 'Alarms to Enterprise Central'.

For more information, see Configure Alarm Filters on Enterprise Central Workflow .

To create a category

  1. In WorkStation, in the System Tree pane, select the EcoStruxure BMS server you want to configure.

  2. Click the Control Panel tab.

  3. Click Categories .

  4. In the Categories tab, click the Add category button

     
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  5. In the Add Category dialog box, in the Name box, type the name of the new category.

  6. In the Description box, type a description for the category.

  7. Click OK .

  8. On the File menu, click Save .

See Also

  • Configuring the Category of an Alarm
  • Alarm Control Panel – Categories View
  • Alarm Categories