Mimics and Alarms
Access a Mimic Card
A Mimic Card provides digital pictures of assets and processes called mimics. If an asset is not associated with a mimic, this card lists its Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) tags and current values, and, if set, a trend-line analysis view of these KPIs.
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Procedure
Access an Alarm Card
An Alarm Card provides details of the active alarms by their severity levels in the HMI/SCADA system for the selected asset and the descendants of that asset. The severity of an alarm is based on the priorities set in the HMI/SCADA system.
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- Severity level of the alarm.
- State to indicate if the alarm is active.
- Acknowledgement (Acked) status of the alarm.
- Date and time the alarm started.
- Asset and its property causing the alarm.
- Source where alarm originated.
- Substate of a property tag. For example, HiHi is the highest state for the temperature property.
- Message about the alarm, such as its description and steps to fix it. If this information is not available, a description about the tag (data source) appears.
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Procedure
Alarm Icons
Each alarm icon is color-coded and contains a specific number of dots to indicate its severity level. The number next to an icon indicates how many alarms are currently active for that severity level.
The following table describes the severity levels of the alarm icons.
Icon | Description |
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Alarm is critical. | |
Alarm is high priority. | |
Alarm is medium priority. | |
Alarm is low priority. |