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Alarm definition groups

Alarm Management

 uses groups to arrange alarm definitions into logical and functional groups.

You can use groups to define which alarm definitions are automatically started when Alarm Management is started. By default, alarm definitions that are in the DEFAULT group and the ACTIVE library are started automatically when Alarm Management starts.

Any number of alarm definition groups may be active at the same time, and alarm definition groups may contain one or more alarm definitions. You can choose to keep all of your alarm definitions in a single group, or you can create multiple groups to separate your alarm definitions according to user, product, or any other criteria that you need.

Groups are created automatically if you specify a new group name when you copy, move, or rename an alarm definition. Groups are deleted automatically if all of the alarm definitions in the group are removed from the group.

Tip

Avoid using alarm group names that are greater than 8 characters in length. While alarm group names can be up to 16 characters, because of space constraints, the alarm views display only the first 8 characters of the names. You will not see the complete name if it is longer than 8 characters.

If you want to use group names that are longer than 8 characters, you might want to create customized views that display up to the full 16-character names.

The Alarm Management default group ID is 00, it works with all products, and it contains the TGTCHK alarm definition.

Related topic

Alarm-Management-terms-and-concepts

 

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