Alarm Categories for an OPC Alarm and Event Server

These are the categories of CIMPLICITY alarm messages that passed as OPC alarm messages:

Category Used for
Level Non-Boolean point alarms

Text messages come from the alarm strings definition used by the alarm.
Discrete Boolean point alarms

Text messages come from the alarm strings definition used by the alarm.
System All non-point alarms
Non-point alarms have a configurable severity. This severity is used by the OPC server as the sub-condition System severity.
Note: Existing non-point alarms have a default severity of 100.