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Alarm Manager

The automatic alarm system is an essential part of Trimble 4D Control Server. If one of the modules in the Trimble 4D Control Server system reports that it is in a status defined as an alarm condition, it issues an alarm message. When this status disappears, it issues another message. The Alarm Manager module receives the messages and, if configured accordingly, reacts to them with performing a user-defined action.

Alarms come in several levels (information, warning, alert), some of them requiring to be acknowledged.

The Alarm Manager module is available from the root item of the Tree view item. While it is possible to use only one Alarm Manager module for the whole system, Trimble recommends to set up one Alarm Manager module for each computer participating the distributed environment.

For a specified alarm condition, Alarm jobs define the actions that are performed, if this condition occurs or disappears. To define individual actions for a group of selected modules, you may use the System properties to specify module groups first.

Modules that trigger an alarm message and can be selected for alarm jobs.

Actions Trimble 4D Control Server supports to perform after the alarm is issued.

Settings and module views

When the module is first being added, the Alarm Manager Properties dialog appears. It lets you define and select Alarm Manager module configurations. Each configuration holds one or several Alarm jobs, which you define first, before the Alarm Manager module can start executing its tasks. You also may remove a configuration or an Alarm job from here, if you do not need them anymore. You can add further settings and jobs to the selected Alarm configuration at any time.

The module displays the Alarm Status, History, and All Alarms History module-view pages.

In the Tree view, an Alarm Manager module is represented by its configuration name and a status-identifying icon.

Icon Alarm Manager module

Module connected, no configured alarm active.

Module connected, a configured alarm of the Information level is active.

Icon Alarm Manager module

Module connected, a configured alarm of the Warning level is active.

Module connected, a configured alarm of the "Alert" level is active.

Icon Device is disconnected

Module disconnected.

Logging into the database

All actions of the Alarm Manager module are logged into the central database. The database contains the following tables referring to the Alarm Manager system:

Table name

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AllAlarms

Historic alarms

One row for each Alert or Warning received by the Alarm Manager module.

AlarmHistory

Historic actions

One row for each type alarm issued by the Alarm Manager module.

AlarmAckHistory

Historic acknowledgements

One row for each alarm to be acknowledged.

See Also

Modules that trigger an alarm

User management

In This Chapter

Adding jobs to the Alarm Manager module

Alarm Manager Properties dialog

Alarm Manager views

Alarm Manager - Acknowledgement Requires Comment dialog