American Dynamics ADMPCPU User Manual

MEGAPOWER CPU 

8200-0421-03, REV. G 

ADMINISTRATOR’S GUIDE 

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When any member of the set is activated, all 
members of the set are activated. 

Each member of a wired set must be 
designated as “Wired Set” or “Wired Group 
Ack,” except the last member of the set, which 
must be designed as “No,” “No Group Ack,” 
“Salvo,” or “Salvo Group Ack.” 

−  No Group Ack, Yes Group Ack, Salvo Group 

Ack, Wired Group Ack – When an alarm is 
cleared manually by a keyboard operator, all 
alarms in the wired set are cleared. 

•  Aux – Identifies an auxiliary device to be included 

as an action when this alarm activates. Choose 
from the following: 

–  Don’t Care – Ignores the auxiliary 
–  Aux 1-4 On – Activates auxiliaries 1, 2, 3, or 4 

when an alarm is triggered 

–  Aux 1-4 Off – Deactivates auxiliaries 1, 2, 3, or 

4 when an alarm is triggered 

•  Dwell – When the monitor is armed to sequence 

alarms, the dwell time specifies how long an 
alarm stays on screen before the next alarm in 
queue takes its place. Options are 1-60 seconds. 

•  Alarm Message – Message that appears on a 

given monitor when an alarm is activated. Alarm 
messages are created in the Alarm – Alarm 
Messages screen. 

After the alarm message is created, enter the 
alarm message number in the Alarm Messages 
field of the Alarm – Contact Definitions screen. 

•  Email Message – Text of Email message 

delivered to recipients designated in the Alarms – 
Email messages screen (Figure 86). A message 
can be sent to any designated Email address in 
the event of an alarm. 

To create an Email message, click on the Email 
Message field and the following appears: 

−  <<Add New…>> – When you select this, click 

again outside this field and the following dialog 
box appears (Figure 83). 

 

1.  To prepare an Email message, complete the 

following fields in the dialog box: 

–  Host Address – Enter the IP address of the 

host Email server. 

–  Send To: – Section that allows up to three 

Email addresses to be designated. 

–  Email Address – Enter each Email address 

that you want the message to go to. 

–  Subject – Enter a subject line that briefly 

describes the action to take in the event an 
alarm occurs. 

–  Message – Add descriptive text that will 

help the reader to understand what needs to 
be accomplished. 

2. Click OK to save and close the dialog box. 

•  Alarm Trigger – Enables the configuring of dome 

input alarms. The first two columns, Dome and 
Dome Input can be edited while the third column, 
Video Loss Camera (range) is read-only.