Monitoring And Handling Alarms; Acknowledging Alarms - ABB COM600 Owner's/Operator's Manual

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Operator's Manual
For quality flag information and explanations of the flag meaning, see Appendix
2, Quality values in Event and Alarm Lists.

Monitoring and handling alarms

To monitor and handle alarms in the substation, click Alarms in the menu bar at the top
of the screen. To view the alarms concerning a specific bay, click the appropriate object
in the substation tree.
You can also filter the alarms concerning a specific voltage level or bay with the Filter
function.
In the Persisting alarms list, you can see active alarms. The Fleeting alarms list displays
a list of inactive unacknowledged alarms. The alarm list is continuously updated to
present the actual state of the alarm signals.
To view the event list, click View events.
Figure 3.7.2-1 An example view of alarms

Acknowledging alarms

Click Ack to indicate that you have registered and identified the alarm. Acknowledging
an alarm does not remove the alarm, but changes the alarm state. An acknowledged
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