Configuring the Auto Alarm Manager on the Receiving Node
To configure
the Auto Alarm Manager on the Receiving node:
- In Classic view, from the iFIX WorkSpace, click the System Configuration Utility button on the toolbar.
-Or-
In Ribbon view, on the Applications tab, in the System & Security group, click SCU.
- On the Configure menu, click Auto Alarm Manager.
- In the Receive Alarms area, select the Enable option.
- In the Receiving Tagname field, enter the name of the receiving tag. Typically, you would use a Digital Output (DO) block type for this tag.
- Click OK.
IMPORTANT: The Auto Alarm Manager TCP only communicates over TCP/IP, and requires that Microsoft Remote Access Service (RAS) software be installed on each server running the Auto Alarm Manager. Refer to your Microsoft manuals for more information on setting up RAS. You also need to have the TCP/IP protocol installed and correctly set up on every Sending and Receiving node.
NOTE: The AAMTCP.exe can only read from or write to an iFIX Database tag on the local iFIX node. You cannot read or write to tags on remote nodes. This applies to the Emergency Tagname, Disable Tagname and the Receiving Tagname. You cannot acknowledge an alarm that comes from a remote node. For the alarm to be acknowledged, it has to be from the same (local) node that AAMTCP.exe is running on. If it is not, the alarm will still be sent to the Receiver node, but it will not be acknowledged by the Sender node.
