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Document: D5087
Part: D301418X012
November 2016
Web_BSI Manual
OpenBSI Version 5.9
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Application Safety Considerations
Protecting Operating Processes
A failure of this application – for whatever reason -- may leave an operating process without
appropriate protection and could result in possible damage to property or injury to persons. To protect
against this, you should review the need for additional backup equipment or provide alternate means
of protection (such as alarm devices, output limiting, fail-safe valves, relief valves, emergency shutoffs,
emergency switches, etc.)
CAUTION
When implementing control using this product, observe best industry practices as suggested by applicable
and appropriate environmental, health, and safety organizations. While this product can be used as a safety
component in a system, it is NOT intended or designed to be the ONLY safety mechanism in that system.
Table of Contents
What is Web_BSI? .......................................................................................................................... 1
Setting up the Web_BSI Software .............................................................................................. 2
Installing the Web_BSI software on your PC ............................................................................ 2
Specifying the Location of Your Web Browser ......................................................................... 2
Specifying the Startup Web Page For A Controller ................................................................... 2
Other Notes About Using Web Pages ........................................................................................ 3
Web_BSI Pages ..................................................................................................................... 5
Alarm Summary Web Page ........................................................................................................ 7
Archive Collection Web Page .................................................................................................. 19
Array Collection Web Page ...................................................................................................... 23
Array Item View Web Page ..................................................................................................... 27
Audit Collection Web Page ...................................................................................................... 33
Buffer Usage Web Page (Network 3000) ................................................................................. 36
Crash Blocks Web Page ........................................................................................................... 38
Custom PROM INFO Web Page (Network 3000) ................................................................... 39
File Transfer web page ............................................................................................................. 41
Historical Log Storage Web page ............................................................................................ 43
IP Statistics Web page .............................................................................................................. 45
Node Locator Web Page ........................................................................................................... 51
Node Routing Table Web Page ................................................................................................ 53
Port Summary Statistics Web Page .......................................................................................... 54
Security Sign-On Web Page ..................................................................................................... 64
Signal List Web Page ............................................................................................................... 66
Signal Recipe Web Page .......................................................................................................... 69
Signal Search Web Page ........................................................................................................... 73
Signal View Web Page ............................................................................................................. 87
Tele-Product Web Pages - Notes About ................................................................................ 104
Trend Web Page (Historical Trend, Signal Trend) ................................................................ 106
Version Information Web Page .............................................................................................. 123
Appendix A - ActiveX Controls ................................................................................................. A-1
Notes About Creating Your Own Web Pages ........................................................................ A-3
Standard Properties (Common to Multiple ActiveX Controls) .............................................. A-3
Use of Parameters ................................................................................................................. A-5
Notes about Specifying Colors: .............................................................................................. A-6
Specifying RGB colors as Decimal Numbers ........................................................................ A-6
Forcing a Refresh of a Web Control ...................................................................................... A-6
Troubleshooting Tip – Web Page Controls Not Functioning Properly .................................. A-6
Resetting the Internet Security Settings ................................................................................. A-6
Verifying that Javascript is enabled ....................................................................................... A-7
Alarm Summary ................................................................................................................. A-9
SECTION 2 – EVEN HEADER
Archive Collection Control ....................................................................................................... A-12
Array Collection Control .......................................................................................................... A-13
Audit Collection Control .......................................................................................................... A-15
Buffer Usage Control ............................................................................................................... A-17
CPROM Control (Custom PROM) ........................................................................................... A-17
Crash Block Control ............................................................................................................... A-18
File Transfer Control ............................................................................................................... A-18
Historical Array Item View Control ......................................................................................... A-20
Historical Log Storage Control ................................................................................................. A-24
IP Statistics Control ............................................................................................................... A-32
Node Routing Control ............................................................................................................... A-32
OpenBSI Version Control ......................................................................................................... A-32
Port Summary Control .............................................................................................................. A-33
Recipe Control ............................................................................................................... A-33
RTU Locator Control ............................................................................................................... A-35
Security Control (Sign On) ....................................................................................................... A-36
Signal List Control ............................................................................................................... A-37
Signal Search ............................................................................................................... A-38
Signal View Control ............................................................................................................... A-41
Trend ............................................................................................................... A-53
Version Information Control .................................................................................................... A-58
Write Signal Control ............................................................................................................... A-59
Examples - Configuring ActiveX Controls in HTML .............................................................. A-62
Appendix B – File Tabs for Calibration Web Pages .................................................................. B-1
Addendum
What is Web_BSI?
What is Web_BSI?
Web_BSI consists of a set of standard web pages and ActiveX controls which may be used to
configure a newly installed ControlWave series process automation controller, or to modify
certain configuration parameters in an existing ControlWave unit. Some web page functions are
also supported for Network 3000-series controllers.
The key components of the Web_BSI, from a user's point of view are:
Standard Set of Web Pages - A series of data collection web pages, compatible with
Microsoft® Internet Explorer (Version 5.0 or newer), are provided to view data from arrays,
archives, audit files, and lists. Some of the standard web pages may be used with both
Network 3000 and ControlWave series controllers, others will function with only one product
series.
NOTE: Separate sets of web pages are also available for configuration/calibration operations
for particular ControlWave or TeleFlow products. For information on these, please consult
the help files in those web pages.
The easiest way to access the web pages is through LocalView or NetView, after you have
added the controller to the OpenBSI network.
The Web_BSI standard set of web pages (HTML) are stored on the OpenBSI workstation.
ActiveX Controls for use in User-Created Web Pages - In addition to this standard set of
web pages, users can create their own web pages. To support the user-created web pages, a
series of ActiveX controls specific to ControlWave and Network 3000 controllers are
provided for web page developers. User-created web pages are stored on the OpenBSI
Workstation.
LocalView - Allows local communication with a controller. Also allows configuration
parameters to be set. See Chapter 5 of the the OpenBSI Utilities Manual (document# D5081)
for details.
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Setting up the Web_BSI Software
Installing the Web_BSI software on your PC
Web_BSI is automatically included when you install either the OpenBSI Network Edition, or the
OpenBSI Local Edition. See Chapter 2 of the OpenBSI Utilities Manual (document# D5081) for
details.
IMPORTANT
The Web_BSI software should only be run on Windows® 2008 Server, Windows® 7
Professional, or Windows
under Windows
for Windows
®
95, because of unpredictable results. There is no longer support
®
98, Windows® NT, Windows® 2000, or Windows® XP Professional.
Specifying the Location of Your Web Browser
®
10. Users are warned NOT to attempt to run this software
If the path of your web browser is other than the default (\Program Files\Internet Explorer\) you
will need to use a text editor to edit the WEB_BROWSER_PATH parameter in your NDF file to
reflect the web browser’s location.
WEB_BROWSER_PATH=C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer
Specifying the Startup Web Page For A Controller
During OpenBSI system configuration, you must specify a
startup HTML web page for each controller. This can be done
in the RTU Wizard of NetView when the controller is initially
added to the network, or from the RTU Properties dialog box,
after it is already in the network.
To access the RTU Properties dialog box, right click on the
icon for the controller, and choose “Properties” from the
pop-up menu.
The startup web page resides on the PC workstation, so a full path and filename must be
entered in the “Startup” field of the RTU Properties dialog box.
If you would like access to the standard web page set, specify web_bsi.htm as the startup
page. This web page is referred to as the Main Menu, and contains links to all of the
standard web pages.
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Specify the complete path and filename on the PC, of the
startup web page here. (Use the “Browse” push button to
locate the web page, if desired.)
Other Notes About Using Web Pages
For optimum results, screen resolution should be set to 1024 x 768 when using our web
pages.
You can use the tab key to move between fields on web pages. (OpenBSI 5.8 and newer.)
If you need to enter a value in a field on a web page, you must press the [Enter] key to save
the value. You can use the [Esc] key to leave the field unchanged.
If you need make a selection from a drop-down menu (combo box), you must press the
[Enter] key to save the value, unless you have OpenBSI 5.8 Service Pack 1 or newer in
which case your selection is sent to the RTU automatically.
You can have multiple web pages open simultaneously, for example, to look at different
types of data from the same RTU. To do this, just open a new instance of Internet Explorer
(or open a new window in IE using the FileNew command). Note, however, that if you
terminate one instance (or window) communicating with a particular RTU, you will
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terminate all instances or windows communicating with that same RTU.
If your ControlWave-series controller is part of a BSAP network, it will be treated as a
BSAP controller; and only those configuration facilities and features available for a BSAP
controller will be available. This will prevent web page configuration of Audit/Archive and
certain security features.
NetView software must be registered in order to be used beyond the 60 day evaluation
period. See Chapter 2 of the OpenBSI Utilities Manual (document# D5081) for more
information on the registration process.
The standard set of web pages for Web_BSI are stored in the directory:
\openbsi_installation_path\WebPages
where openbsi_installation_path is whatever directory you chose for the installation of
OpenBSI data files. The default is \ProgramData\Bristol\OpenBSI\.
Other folders of web pages are also available for various other ControlWave or TeleFlow
products.
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Calling up Web_BSI Pages
Web_BSI Pages
There are two different methods for calling up the Web_BSI web pages:
IMPORTANT
If this is the first time you are calling up the Web_BSI web pages, you will need to use
the Node Locator page, described later in this manual, to identify the nodes with which
you want to communicate. After that, you should not need to use it again, unless you
are communicating with different nodes, or if your network configuration has changed.
IMPORTANT
You must log in with Administrative privileges in order to use certain configuration
web pages, in particular the Node Locator.
Method 1
With NetView or LocalView running, click as follows:
StartProgramsOpenBSI ToolsWeb Page AccessStandard Pages
Method 2
In order to call up the web page(s) associated with
a particular controller, right click on the icon for
the controller in the OpenBSI NetView tree, and
choose RTUWebPage Access from the pop-up
menu. Internet Explorer will be started, and
whichever startup web page associated with the
controller will be displayed.
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Calling up Web_BSI Pages
To call up other web pages, click on a category, and then
select from the choices that appear below it.
The Main Menu page in the standard set is shown, above, however, the startup page for your
controller may be different. Typically, the Security Sign-On always appears on the Main Menu
page.
The various web pages include category buttons along the left hand side, for calling up
additional pages; when you click your cursor on a category button, a list of pages belonging in
that category will appear below it. The category buttons are named Security, Statistics, Signal
Data, and Historical Data.
A “Node Name” field displays the name of the current controller from which data is being
viewed on the web page.
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Alarm Summary Web Pa ge
The Alarm Summary Web Page allows you to view all current alarm messages received from a
controller (or multiple controllers) in the network.1
To access the Alarm Summary web page, click on the "Signal Data" category button, then
choose the "Alarm Summary" drop-down menu selection.
The most recent alarms appear at the top of the window; older alarms are automatically
Alarms appear in different colors based on the Alarm Priority. The colors are set in the
The choice of which columns are included for the alarm entries can be specified from the
Alarms can be filtered so that only alarms meeting certain criteria are displayed. This can be
Alarms can be sorted alphabetically based on a particular column, by clicking on the column
Right-click on
Date/time entry
Pop-up menu
moved towards the bottom. If there are more alarms than can fit in the window, a scroll bar
will appear, which you can use to view the additional alarms. By clicking on the ‘Date/Time’
column heading, you can sort alarms already displayed from newest to oldest, or oldest to
newest, however, any new alarms coming in will always appear at the top.
‘Colors’ page of the Alarm Properties dialog box.
‘Alarm Summary’ page of the Alarm Properties dialog box.
specified from the ‘Filtering’ page of the Alarm Properties dialog box.
heading. (NOTE: This does not apply to certain columns, such as the value or limit.)
1
The initial release of the Alarm Summary Control in Version 5.3 only supported alarms from RTUs
communicating via BSAP. Beginning with OpenBSI 5.4, alarms from RTUs communicating via IP are also
supported, provided the RTU firmware is 4.40 or newer.
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Optionally, alarms can also be saved in a log file, for viewing at a later time. This can be
configured from the ‘Logging’ page of the Alarm Properties dialog box.
If you want to view alarms from more than one controller in the Alarm Summary, you must
be logged onto each of these controllers, prior to opening the Alarm Summary web page.
(This could be accomplished via the Sign On control, or via a login script in your web page
which uses the Sign On Control). To view a list of which controllers you are currently logged
onto, right click outside of the Alarm Summary window, but within the boundaries of the
control, and click on “Rtu List” in the pop-up menu
Acknowleging Alarms
To acknowlege an alarm visible in the Alarm Summary, click on the timestamp for the alarm,
then right-click outside of the Alarm Summary window, but within the boundaries of the control,
and click on “Ack” in the pop-up menu. If you want to select multiple alarms for
acknowlegement, hold down the [Ctrl] key as you select the alarms, then click on “Ack”. If you
want to acknowlege all alarms in the control, click on “Ack All”. NOTE: Once an alarm has
returned to normal, and has been acknowleged by the operator, it will be removed from the
alarm summary. Change of state alarms are removed once they are acknowledged.
Alarm Control Properties Dialog Box
The Alarm Control Properties dialog box allows you to configure which types of alarm message
data should be displayed in the Alarm Summary. The dialog box is divided into multiple pages,
accessible by clicking on tabs.
To call up the Alarm Properties dialog box, right-click outside of the Alarm Summary window,
but within the boundaries of the control, and click on “Properties” in the pop-up menu.
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Alarm Summary Page
The ‘Alarm Summary’ page allows you to specify what parts of the alarm message you want to
display in the columns of the Alarm Summary. NOTE The RTU’s node name, the signal name,
and the timestamp when the alarm occurred are always displayed, and so are not included as
options.
Columns Which May be Included in the Alarm Summary:
To include a particular type of alarm message data in the Alarm Summary, check the appropriate
box. The boxes are:
Signal’s Value
Engineering Units
Alarm’s Priority
Alarm’s State
The value of the signal at the moment the alarm was generated.
The engineering units for the signal, such as gallons, inches, degrees
celsius, etc.
The priority indicates the importance of the alarm. The priorities, in
order of most importance to least importance are: Critical, NonCritical, Operator Guide (Op. Guide), and Event.
For analog alarms the possible states are ‘High-High’, ‘High’, ‘Low’
and ‘Low-Low’. These states indicate which alarm limit has been
most recently exceeded. For logical alarms, the state indicates the
type of boolean value change which occurred to generate the alarm.
‘True’ indicates the signal changed from ‘False’ to ‘True’. ‘False’
indicates the signal changed from ‘True’ to ‘False’, and ‘Change of
State’ indicates the signal simply changed from ‘True’ to ‘False’ or
‘False’ to ‘True’.
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Report Type
Limit Exceeded
Ack State
Descriptor
Global Sequence
Number
Local Sequence
Number
Signal’s Index
Global Address
Load Version
Push Buttons and Other Controls
The report type indicates the number of times the signal has gone into
an alarm condition as part of this particular alarm message. ‘Single’
indicates it went ‘in alarm’ once. ‘Momentary’ indicates that it
momentarily went ‘in alarm’, but then returned to normal. ‘Multiple’
indicates that the signal has gone into and out of alarm more than
once.
This is the alarm limit which was exceeded.
This shows whether the alarm has been acknowleged by the operator,
or not.
This is the textual descriptor of the alarm signal.
The Global Sequence Number of the alarm, used internally, for
identifying alarm, audit, and archive files, within this RTU.
The Local Sequence Number, used internally, for identifying alarms
within this RTU.
For Network 3000: The Master Signal Directory (MSD) Address. For
ControlWave: The PDD Index. These are internal numbers used by
the firmware.
The global address of this RTU.
The version of the ACCOL load or ControlWave project executing in
this RTU.
[Select All]
[Clear All]
[Save As Defaults]
[Restore Defaults]
[OK]
[Cancel]
Selects all items for inclusion as columns in the Alarm Summary.
Users can then de-select any they do not want.
Clears all selections on this page.
Saves the selections in the Alarm Control’s Properties dialog box to a
defaults file.
Restores the saved selections from the defaults file.
Exits the Alarm Control’s Properties dialog box, saving all changes.
Exits the Alarm Control’s Properties dialog box, without saving
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changes, except for changes saved to the defaults file.
[Help]
Calls up a help file.
Filtering Page
Sometimes, the user may wish to limit the alarm summary to only signals which satisfy certain
criteria, for example, they may want to exclude ‘Event’ and ‘Op. Guide’ alarms so that the
summary only shows ‘Critical’ and ‘Non-Critical’ alarms, or they may want to exclude ‘Logical
Alarms’ so that the summary will only show ‘Analog Alarms’. The Filtering page allows users to
specify this filtering criteria.
Exclude Alarm Type
This allows you to limit the alarm summary to only analog alarms, or
only logical alarms.
Selecting “Analog Alarms” prevents display of analog alarms in the
Alarm Summary.
Selecting “Logical Alarms” prevents display of logical (BOOL) alarms
in the Alarm Summary.
Apply Filtering
while in offline mode
The contents of the Alarm Summary can be saved in an alarm snapshot
(*.ALM) file, for off-line viewing, even when communications are not
active with the RTU network. If, when viewing the off-line alarm
summary, you want to continue to filter alarms, based on the criteria
defined on this page, select the “Apply Filtering while in offline
mode” box.
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Exclude Priority
Exclude Limit
Exclude Logical
Type
This allows you to limit the priorities of alarms which are displayed in
the Alarm Summary.
Selecting “Event” prevents display of event priority alarms in the
Alarm Summary.
Selecting “Op. Guide” prevents display of operator guide alarms in the
Alarm Summary.
Selecting “Non-Critical” prevents display of non-critical alarms in the
Alarm Summary.
Selecting “Critical” prevents display of critical alarms in the Alarm
Summary.
This allows you to restrict analog alarms which are displayed in the
Alarm Summary based on which alarm limits have been exceeded, for
example, you could exclude low and high alarms, and only show lowlow and high-high alarms in the Alarm Summary.
Selecting “Low” prevents display of analog alarms in the Alarm
Summary which have exceeded their low alarm limit.
Selecting “High” prevents display of analog alarms in the Alarm
Summary which have exceeded their high alarm limit.
Selecting “Low-Low” prevents display of analog alarms in the Alarm
Summary which have exceeded their low-low alarm limit.
Selecting “High-High” prevents display of analog alarms in the Alarm
Summary which have exceeded their high-high alarm limit.
This allows you to restrict logical alarms which are displayed in the
Alarm Summary based on which logical state triggered the alarm.
Selecting “False” prevents alarms generated by a signal becoming
FALSE, from being displayed in the Alarm Summary.
Selecting “True” prevents alarms generated by a signal becoming
TRUE, from being displayed in the Alarm Summary.
Selecting “Change of State” prevents alarms generated by a signal
changing state from FALSE-to-TRUE or TRUE-to-FALSE, from being
displayed in the Alarm Summary.
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Exclude Report
Push Buttons and Other Controls
[Exclude All]
[Include All]
[Save As Defaults]
[Restore Defaults]
[OK]
[Cancel]
[Help]
This allows you to restrict alarms which are displayed in the Alarm
Summary based on how the alarms are reported.
Select “Single” to prevent alarms generated based on a signal entering
an alarm condition once from appearing in the Alarm Summary.
Select “Momentary” to prevent alarms generated based on a signal
momentarily entering an alarm condition and then returning to normal,
from appearing in the Alarm Summary.
Select “Multiple” to prevent alarms generated based on a signal
entering an alarm condition more than once for a given alarm message
from appearing in the Alarm Summary.
Causes all boxes on the Filtering page to be selected, thus excluding all
alarms from the Alarm Summary.
Clears all boxes on the Filtering page, thereby turning off filtering, and
allowing all alarms to be displayed in the Alarm Summary.
Saves the selections in the Alarm Control’s Properties dialog box to a
defaults file.
Restores the saved selections from the defaults file.
Exits the Alarm Control’s Properties dialog box, saving all changes.
Exits the Alarm Control’s Properties dialog box, without saving
changes, except for changes saved to the defaults file.
Calls up a help file.
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Colors Page
The Colors page allows you to choose which colors you want displayed for alarm messages of a
particular priority, for example, critical alarms appear in RED, etc. The page also lets you define
the background color for the Alarm Summary window.
How to set colors:
The current colors for each alarm priority are displayed next
to a button for that priority. To specify the colors which will
be displayed for alarm messages of a particular priority,
click on the button for that priority, and the color pallette
will appear.
Choose the desired color, and then click on [OK].
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[Event]
[Op. Guide]
[Non-Critical]
[Critical]
[Return-to-Normal]
[Alarm Summary
Background]
[Save As Defaults]
[Restore Defaults]
[OK]
[Cancel]
[Help]
Click here to call up the color pallette and specify the color in which
Event alarm messages will be displayed in the Alarm Summary.
Click here to call up the color pallette and specify the color in which
Operator Guide alarm messages will be displayed in the Alarm
Summary.
Click here to call up the color pallette and specify the color in which
Non-Critical alarm messages will be displayed in the Alarm Summary.
Click here to call up the color pallette and specify the color in which
Critical alarm messages will be displayed in the Alarm Summary.
Click here to call up the color pallette and specify the color in which
Return-to-Normal alarm messages will be displayed in the Alarm
Summary.
Click here to call up the color pallette and specify the background color
of the Alarm Summary window.
Saves the selections in the Alarm Control’s Properties dialog box to a
defaults file.
Restores the saved selections from the defaults file.
Exits the Alarm Control’s Properties dialog box, saving all changes.
Exits the Alarm Control’s Properties dialog box, without saving
changes, except for changes saved to the defaults file.
Calls up a help file.
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Logging Page
The Logging page allows the user to specify the name of a log file into which alarm summary
data will be stored. This allows users to keep a historical record of alarms, even after they have
been removed from the Alarm Summary.
Enable Logging
File to log Alarm
Reports
Append
Overwrite
Dump Extra alarm
data
When checked, causes entries in the Alarm Summary to also be stored
in a ASCII-text log file on your computer’s hard disk.
This specifies the path and name of the log file where the alarm data
will be stored. If a file already exists, use the [Browse] button to locate
it. Log files have the extension of *.LOG.
When selected, any new alarm summary entries are appended to the end
of the existing log file, preserving earlier data in the log file.
When this is selected, the Alarm Summary log file will be emptied
whenever the control starts, thereby deleting any previous entries.
By default, the local and global sequence numbers, the global address,
the load version, the descriptor, and the PDD index are omitted from the
log file. When this box is selected, however, they are all included in the
Alarm Summary log file. All other types of Alarm Summary Data
(signal value, engineering units, etc.) are always included in the Alarm
Summary Log file.
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Apply filtering while
logging
When selected, filtering criteria specified in the ‘Filtering’ page of the
Alarm Properties dialog box, will be used to limit the types of alarms
stored in the Alarm Summary Log file. When this is not selected,
filtering criteria will only apply to the alarms appearing on the screen in
the Alarm Summary.
[Save As Defaults]
Saves the selections in the Alarm Control’s Properties dialog box to a
defaults file.
[Restore Defaults]
Restores the saved selections from the defaults file.
[OK]
Exits the Alarm Control’s Properties dialog box, saving all changes.
[Cancel]
Exits the Alarm Control’s Properties dialog box, without saving
changes, except for changes saved to the defaults file.
[Help]
Calls up a help file.
Example of an Alarm Summary Log File:
An example of an Alarm Summary Log File is shown below. These files may be viewed in
Notepad or any other ASCII text editor.
23-JAN-2004 13:43:00.560 Portland LOOP7.INP. 0.000000 PSIA
Critical Single
23-JAN-2004 13:43:00.560 Portland LOOP8.INP. 0.000000 RPM
Critical Single
23-JAN-2004 13:43:06.580 Portland LOOP8.INP. 6.000000 RPM
Non-Critical
23-JAN-2004 13:43:11.560 Portland LOOP7.INP. 11.000000 PSIA
Critical
23-JAN-2004 13:43:16.560 Portland LOOP8.INP. 16.000000 RPM
(Normal)
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Saving a ‘snapshot’ of the current alarms into an Alarm Snapshot File
An Alarm Snapshot File is different from the Alarm Summary Log File discussed, earlier. Alarm
Snapshot Files have a file extension of (*.ALM) and are used to store a ‘snapshot’ of all current
alarms visible in the Alarm Summary. They are binary files, and so cannot be viewed in a text
editor.
To save the current alarms appearing on the screen in an existing Alarm Snapshot file, right-
click outside of the Alarm Summary window, but within the boundaries of the control, and click
on “Save” in the pop-up menu. If there is no existing Alarm Snapshot file, you will be prompted
for a path and filename, for the Alarm snapshot file.
If you store the Alarm data in an all new snapshot file, choose “Save As” instead of save, and
provide the path and filename for the file.
Viewing an Alarm Snapshot File
An Alarm Snapshot file can only be viewed when the Alarm Summary Window is in off-line
mode.
To view the snapshot file, right-click outside of the Alarm Summary window, but within the
boundaries of the control, and click on “Open”, then navigate to the alarm snapshot (*.ALM)
file, and open the file. The Alarm Summary Window will automatically go off-line, and no new
alarms will be displayed or logged while it is off-line. (You can tell the Alarm Summary is offline because while in off-line mode, the word OFFLINE appears on a status line at the bottom of
the window, along with the path and name of the Alarm Snapshot file currently being viewed.)
When you have finished viewing the Alarm Snapshot file, you can close it and return to on-line
mode by right-clicking outside of the Alarm Summary window, but within the boundaries of the
control, and then clicking on “Online”. The Alarm Summary control will now resume
displaying active alarms.
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Archive Collection Web Page
The Archive Collection page allows you to view the contents of archive files stored in the
controller.
To access the Archive Collection page, click on the "Historical Data" category button, then
choose the "Archive Collection" drop-down menu selection.
Archive Collection Parameters
Collect by Name
If the type of controller you are communicating with supports access
to Archive files using the Archive file's name, you can check this
box, and then enter the desired archive file's name in the "File
Name" field. Otherwise, you must access the file through its file
number.
Start from oldest record
If you would like the oldest archive file entries to appear first, select
this option.
Freeze Date/Time
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As you scroll through the archive file window, the first column
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(which may contain date/time stamps) may disappear from the
window as higher numbered columns are brought into the window.
To prevent this, select this option.
File Number
File Name
Stats
Fields Collected
Records Collected
This is the unique ID number for the Archive File you want to view.
To enter the file number, the "Collect by Name" check box must
NOT be selected.
This is the archive file name of the Archive File you want to view.
To enter the archive file name, you must have checked the "Collect
by Name" box.
Displays the number of fields (columns) in the archive file which
have been collected.
Displays the number of records (rows) in the archive file which have
been collected.
Push Buttons and Other Controls
Collect Data
Save Parameters
Click on this button to collect archive data based on your entries in
the "Archive Collection Parameters" section.
This button calls up the Save Parameters dialog box. You can save
the archive data you have viewed into a file on your PC hard disk.
To save the archive data, check the "Save Archive Data" check
box, then enter a filename in the "Filename" field, or choose the
[…] button to locate a path and filename of a file. NOTE: This only
saves a snapshot of the data you have actually viewed on the screen;
it does NOT save the entire archive file. As you scroll to bring new
data on the screen, it will be added to the specified file. If you want
to save an entire Archive File, you should use a tool such as the
OpenBSI Harvester or the Historical Log Storage control.
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Click on [OK] when finished.
Search Criteria
Floating Point Format
This button calls up the Select Data Collection Criteria dialog box.
This dialog box allows you to filter the archive data which will be
displayed.
"Collect All Available Information" specifies that all archive data
from this archive file should be collected.
"Collect by specified Date" specifies that only archive data with
timestamps between the "Begin Date" and "End Date" entries you
specify should be collected.
"Collect by specified Period" specifies that only archive data
collected during the period you specify should be collected. Choices
are 'Today', 'This Week', or 'This Month'.
Click on [OK] when you have finished selecting the search criteria.
Calls up the Float Format dialog box. In this dialog box, you can
specify the precision with which analog (floating point) values are
displayed.
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Use the "Width" list box to specify the total number of characters
in the field (including the decimal point) when displaying a floating
point number. This can range from 1 to 15. The default is 12.
Use the "Precision" list box to choose the number of places to the
right of the decimal point which should be displayed. This can range
from 0 to 15. The default is 6.
Use the "Exponent" list box to choose the floating point format 'f',
exponential notation 'e', or choose 'g' to have the Archive Collection
control choose the best fit format.
Click on [OK] when finished.
File Definition
This button displays certain configuration parameters for this
archive file, e.g. number of records. NOTE: These parameters
CANNOT be changed here, they are only displayed.
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Array Collection Web Page
The Array Collection Page allows you to view the contents of data arrays stored in the controller.
To access the Array Collection page, click on the "Historical Data" category button, then
choose the "Array Collection" drop-down menu selection.
Array Collection Parameters
Number
Start Row
Type
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Enter the number of the array you want to view.
Enter the number of the first row of data in the array you want to
view. This is useful in the case of very large arrays, in which you
want to skip earlier rows, and start with a particular row.
This list box is used to choose the type of array to be viewed (real,
etc.)
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Array Info
Rows
Columns
Rows Collected
Read, Read/Write
This displays the total number of rows in this array.
This displays the total number of columns in this array.
This displays the number of rows which have been collected for
display in the current window.
This indicates the array access type. Read means this is a read-only
array; read/write means it is a read/write array.
Push Buttons and Other Controls
Load Array
Save Parameters
Click on this button to view the array specified based on your entries
in the "Array Collection Parameters" section.
This button calls up the Write Array Collection dialog box. You can
save the array data you have viewed into a file on your PC hard
disk.
To save the array data, enter a filename in the "Filename" field, or
choose the […] button to locate a path and filename of a file.
NOTE: This only saves a snapshot of the data you have actually
viewed on the screen; it does NOT save the entire array. As you
scroll to bring new data on the screen, it will be added to the
specified file.
If you want to save the entire array, enter a "Start Row" of 1, and
check the "Collect All" box.
If you want to only save certain rows of the array, make sure
"Collect All" is not selected, and choose a starting row in "Start
Row", and enter the total number of rows (beginning with the
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starting row) that you want to store in the "Max # of Rows to
Write" field.
Click on [OK] when finished.
Floating Point Format
Calls up the Float Format dialog box. In this dialog box, you can
specify the precision with which analog (floating point) values are
displayed.
Use the "Width" list box to specify the total number of characters
in the field (including the decimal point) when displaying a floating
point number. This can range from 1 to 15. The default is 12.
Use the "Precision" list box to choose the number of places to the
right of the decimal point which should be displayed. This can range
from 0 to 15. The default is 6.
Use the "Exponent" list box to choose the floating point format 'f',
exponential notation 'e', or choose 'g' to have the Array Collection
control choose the best fit format.
Click on [OK] when finished.
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Freeze First Column
View First Column as
Date / Time
Changing Array Values
If desired, you can change the value of individual
elements in the data array. To do so, click on the
element you want to change, enter the new value in
the Change Value dialog box, and click on [OK].
As you scroll through the array window, the first column (which
may contain date/time stamps) may disappear from the window as
higher numbered columns are brought into the window. To prevent
this, select this option.
Depending upon how your data array is configured, it may include a
numerical total used by the system to store the date / time, instead of
the Julian date / time stamp. Use this button to toggle between the
two formats.
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