Alarm Areas allow grouping a set of Alarm Sources, as well as other Areas. This makes managing, operating, and monitoring a set of related alarm sources easier, such as:

•Filtering a visible set of alarms in the Summary

•Enabling or disabling a set of Alarm Sources

•Acknowledging a set of Alarm Sources

•Checking the number of active or unacknowledged Alarms of a set of Alarm Sources

If needed, new Areas can be inserted within others. To insert this object, follow this procedure:

1.Right-click the Alarm Configuration object or an Area object in Explorer mode and select the Insert - Area option. In Domain mode, right-click the Alarm Configuration object and select the Insert - Area item.

Inserting an Alarm Area

Some properties of this object can be configured in the Properties List, without scripts. To configure any property, locate it on the Properties List and proceed with the necessary adjustments. The description of the properties of this object can be found on the Elipse E3 Reference and Scripts Manual, in its respective chapter.