Alarms

The alarms are used to notify (un)defined users about a specific behavior that has been defined beforehand and is currently happening in the Flexy.

The Flexy is capable of triggering and handling alarms based on different tag-based parameters:

• Value of tags retrieved from third-party devices.
• Status events such as booting, shutting down, …
• Status of a key switch.
• …

Alarm notifications can be customized for each tag or can be based on a template (for email and/or SMS).

Types of Notifications

The alarm notifications can be of different forms:

• publishing on a dedicated web page,
• email or SMS to a user or a list of users,
• file transfer through FTP,
• SNMP traps sent to a management station.

Alarm-based Labels

Based on the tag value, the Flexy recognizes four states:

• ALM stands for Alarm.
  The alarm has been triggered based on the tag settings (Alarm level LowLow / Low / High or HighHigh).
• ACK stands for Acknowledgement.
  As the alarm has been triggered, user can manually check in and confirm he is aware of the abnormal status of a tag. This recognition can also be configured to be automatic when RTN is reached (without human intervention).
• RTN stands for Return to Normal.
  This occurs when the value of the tag which has a triggered alarm comes back into normal range (outside of the defined alarm level).
• END stands for End of Alarm.
  This state is met when ACK and RTN have both occurred.

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