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Chapter 3
Tag Configuration
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Alarms
These attributes include whether to enable alarms, under what 
circumstances a tag is in alarm, the priority level of an alarm, and how 
alarms are acknowledged. Each alarm limit has a priority, ranging between 
1 and 15. In BridgeVIEW, 15 is the highest priority and 1 is the lowest.
There are two main types of alarms:
Alarms based on status
Alarms based on tag values
Configuration for alarms based on tag values is specific to data type. 
Therefore, many alarm attributes apply to only a subset of the BridgeVIEW 
tag data types. For more information about how to access alarm 
information, build alarm summary displays, and retrieve historical 
events files, see Chapter 5, 
.
Table 3-7 provides descriptions of the alarm attributes, and indicates the 
data types to which each attribute applies. For tag attribute information 
about the other configuration categories, see Tables 3-1, 3-2, 3-4, or 3-5. 
Table 3-7.  Alarms Configuration Attributes 
Attribute
Applies to 
Data Types
 
Description
Alarms 
Enabled
all
Determines whether alarms are enabled for a tag. 
Alarm 
Deadband
analog
Determines the amount an analog tag value must diverge from an 
alarm limit before the alarm condition returns to normal. Alarm 
Deadband is expressed in percent of full scale. 
Auto Ack
all
Determines how alarms can be acknowledged. If set to Auto Ack, 
the alarm is acknowledged automatically when the tag value 
returns to the Normal state. If set to User Must Ack, the alarm 
remains unacknowledged until the user acknowledges it, 
regardless of the alarm state. 
Bad Status 
Enabled
all
Determines whether to enable Bad Status alarms for the tag.
Bad Status 
Priority
all
Determines the value (between 1 and 15) for the alarm priority 
for the Bad Status alarm, where 15 represents the highest priority. 
HI_HI 
Enabled
analog
Determines whether to enable HI_HI alarms for a tag.