UM-TMN-470

Preface

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T/MonXM 4.7 User Manual

details about the alarms are displayed. In making window assign-

ments the alarms can be grouped by geographic area, classification

or priority of the alarm, the type of equipment, etc. An alarm can

appear in more than one window. The standard T/MonXM software

supports 90 alarm windows. It can support up to 720 alarm win-

dows with the Alarm Windows Module option. All alarms are dis-

played in an All Alarm window, represented by the icon at the top

left of the main viewing screen.

User Friendly

T/MonXM is very easy to use. The user interface is consistent in

appearance, featuring on-line help and individual field prompts.

Text/Messages Window

Messages that describe actions to be taken in response to an alarm

are displayed in a Text/Messages Window on the monitoring screen.

Operators can immediately see important information like phone

numbers and document references.

Historian Function

Individual alarms may be logged to a history file, along with time

stamping information. Reports may be run at any time to retrieve

selected information from the history file.

System Security

System security allows security access levels and areas to be

defined for each user. System security log-on is accessible from the

Master menu and the Monitor Mode screen. Security codes control

who is monitoring and working in each area and define the actions a

user can perform.

Background Polling

The interrogation/monitoring/responding functions of T/MonXM

take place in background. Because of this, the user can interactively

perform a large number of tasks without interrupting T/MonXM’s

operation. For example, polling continues to take place while issu-

ing control commands or while system reports are being generated.

Alarm Formatting

Alarm Formatting allows the user to customize which alarm fields

are defined, their position, their width and the colors used when an

alarm is reported on the screen. The text displayed for the status

field is definable on an alarm-by-alarm basis. Both fail and clear

status descriptions can be defined for each alarm. If a status descrip-

tion is not defined for a particular alarm, a global default descrip-

tion is displayed.

Special color options allow the color of a field to be derived from

the alarm’s state or combination of states (failed, cleared, level A,

etc.). The Alarm Format Definition may be up to 2 screens wide (up

to 153 characters)

Access to alarm windows

can be controlled by a

security code.