How do I manually promote or demote the severity of an alarm?

Purpose

Operators with the appropriate scope of command permissions can change the severity of alarms when alarm settings are configured appropriately. See How do I configure alarm severity and deletion behavior? for more information about configuring global alarm settings.

Steps
 
1 

Perform one of the following to open the Severity Assignment form:

  1. From the dynamic alarm list:

    Use the following steps:

    1. Filter the alarms. See the NSP NFM-P User Guide for information about creating search filters.

    2. Right-click on an alarm in the list and choose Assign Severity. The Severity Assignment form opens and displays the selected alarm(s).

  2. From the alarm list on the Faults tab of the object properties form:

    Use the following steps:

    1. Open the object properties form for the required object.

    2. Click on the Faults tab.

    3. Click on a sub-tab. A list of object alarms appears.

    4. Filter the alarms. See the NSP NFM-P User Guide for information about creating alarm filters.

    5. Right-click on an alarm in the list and choose Assign Severity. The Severity Assignment form opens and displays the selected alarm(s).

Note: You can choose multiple alarms at the same time. When you choose multiple alarms, the new severity level is applied to all selected alarms.

2 

Configure the Assigned Severity parameter.

Note: Before you close the form, you can click Reset to restore the original severity setting.

3 

Save the changes and close the forms.

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