Alarm Management

MocXCE completely supports the alarm management is completely supported which however carries a few restrictions regarding notifications and statical analysis. Due to the fact that the Report Engine is not supported in Windows CE, the commands relating to creating statical reports on alarms is not available on the CE device.

The alarm notification functions are managed by the Alarm Dispatcher. Only alarm notifications via SMS and E-mail are available in Windows CE as described in the chapter on  Restrictions.

 

Tips:

 

  1. The alarms do not have any particular limits on the way they function and do not require special configurations to optimize them further.  However, it is always best to keep the alarm management simple based on the capabilities of your panel.  

  2. All the alarms are set with the Acknowledge and Reset management and recording on Historical Log for default.  Each alarm therefore is managed by 4 events (ON, OFF, ACK, RST): The Acknowledge and/or Reset can be disabled when memory is low, to reduce the number of events managed (and recorded) by the system.

  3. If you think you may have too many frequent events, try to avoid recording them in the Historical Log to ensure optimized memory and performances.

  4. The Notification of alarms must only be used when deemed necessary and in function with the panel capacity being used.  Alarm notification via SMS and Email is supported only.

 

AlarmDispatcher

In order to send SMS by means of using a GSM modem you need to manually copy the GSM driver configuration file from the Desktop PC to the CE device. This configuration file is found in the Alarm Dispatcher's installation folder with the default name  "GsmSMS.stg":

 

"..\Progea\AlarmDispatcher\GsmSMS.stg"

 

This file must be copied in the Movicon CE installation folder:

 

"\Harddisk\MovCE\GsmSMS.stg"

 

You have to remember that the Alarm Dispatcher version for Windows CE will always search for file called "GsmSMS.stg" only. However, this configuration file can be saved on the Desktop version with a different name. Therefore you need to rename the file with the "GsmSMS.stg" name before transferring it to the CE device.