Alarm DB Logger Object

for Wonderware
Application Server

Demo Guide
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Table of Contents
Alarm DB Logger Demo ................................................................................................. 1
Software requirements................................................................................................ 1
Installation .................................................................................................................. 1
Configuration .............................................................................................................. 2
Alarm database creation ......................................................................................... 2
Logger configuration ................................................................................................... 7
WAS object configuration ........................................................................................... 10
aAlarm_DBLogger_Alarms...................................................................................... 10
eAlarm_DBLogger_Events ...................................................................................... 11
InTouch Application .................................................................................................... 12

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Alarm DB Logger Demo

Software requirements
Alarm DB Logger demo requires WAS (Wonderware Application Server) 3.1 SP3
or later and InTouch 10.1 SP2 or later installed.

Installation
1. Create a new galaxy or use existing galaxy for this demo installation.

2. Create and Configure WinPlatform (WinPlatform_001) object with enabled

alarming if it does not exists already:

3. Import demo objects (AEP_DemoVer1.aaPKG) into galaxy:

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Note: this package already contains Alarm DB Logger object and Alarm Gateway object
no separate imports are required.

Configuration
Following steps is needed to configure and run Alarm DB Logger demo.

Alarm database creation

For this demo 2 alarm databases (named wwAlarms
And wwEvents) with following configuration are needed:

1) Run Alarm DB Logger application (Alarm DB logger object do not have

functionality to create Alarm database):

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2) Press Settings button:

3) Enter configuration for first alarm database

 Database – wwAlarms
 Password – current sa account password

4) Press Create button and new alarm database is created:

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5) Press OK button and enter second wwEvent database configuration:

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 Database – wwEvents
 Password – current sa account password.

6) Press Create button and new alarm database is created:

7) Press OK button and exit Alarm DB Logger application by pressing Cancel button and
close Alarm DB Logger Manager application.

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Logger configuration
To avoid log messages “Invalid alarm transition state found in FormatAlarmRecord
function”, uncheck UNKNOWN component Log Flag Info:

1) Run System Management Console:

2) Select Log Viewer component, expand to Local group and right click it for context
menu:

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3) Browse to Unknown component and uncheck UNKNOWN component Log Flag Info:

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4) Close Log flag editor and save changes:

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WAS object configuration

Following objects are needed to configure before deploying demo objects.

aAlarm_DBLogger_Alarms
This object at runtime sets alarm database connection configuration for object
AlarmDBLogger_Det_Alarms

1) Configure aAlarm_DBLogger_Alarms object script Ini – set for SQL server password
and user name. sa password SQL.Password

Logmessage("auto set config for AlarmDBLogger_Det_Alarms");

AlarmDBLogger_Det_Alarms.Consumer.AlarmQuery = "\Galaxy!F1";
'"\AlarmGatewayProvider!F1"; ' connect to
AlarmDBLogger_Det_Alarms.SQL.ServerName = "LOCALHOST";
AlarmDBLogger_Det_Alarms.SQL.Database = "wwAlarms";

AlarmDBLogger_Det_Alarms.SQL.User = "sa";
AlarmDBLogger_Det_Alarms.SQL.Password = "x";

AlarmDBLogger_Det_Alarms.Consumer.QueryMode = 1; ' 1 - alarms 2 - events 3 -

both
AlarmDBLogger_Det_Alarms.SQL.LoggingMode = 1;' Alarm Logging Mode 1 - detailed
2 - Consolidated
AlarmDBLogger_Det_Alarms.Restart = true;

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eAlarm_DBLogger_Events
This object at runtime sets alarm database connection configuration for object
AlarmDBLogger_Det_Alarms and AlarmDBLogger_Det_Events)

1) Configure aAlarm_DBLogger_Alarms object script Ini – set for SQL server password
and user name. sa password SQL.Password

Logmessage("auto set config for AlarmDBLogger_Det_Events");

AlarmDBLogger_Det_Events.Consumer.AlarmQuery = "\Galaxy!F1";
AlarmDBLogger_Det_Events.SQL.ServerName = "LOCALHOST";
AlarmDBLogger_Det_Events.SQL.Database = "wwEvents";

AlarmDBLogger_Det_Events.SQL.User = "sa";
AlarmDBLogger_Det_Events.SQL.Password = "x;

AlarmDBLogger_Det_Events.Consumer.QueryMode = 2; ' 1 - alarms 2 - events 3 -

both
AlarmDBLogger_Det_Events.SQL.LoggingMode = 1;' Alarm Logging Mode 1 - detailed
2 - Consolidated
AlarmDBLogger_Det_Events.Restart = true;

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2) After object AlarmDBLogger_AutoConfig is configured save object configuration and

deploy all objects.

InTouch Application
Run managed InTouch application Demo_AEP_001.

1) All Extension Pack objects requires license to run, enter demo license code below:

3B 21 3A 99 27 9F 2C 0C B1 CC A8 7F 4B 94 D2 9B 6B 11 90 B4 64 AC D4 56 E6 F7 9B
33 EC 2E A4 47

Click on text Enter here:

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2) Enter same Demo License key also for both Alarm DB Logger objects:

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3) After all objects are licensed after 15-20 seconds both Alarms views are filled with
alarms:

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UReason alarming system

1) Alarm Gateway object can transfer Alarms to UReason alarming system to

configure alarm gateway for connection to UReason enter computer IP were UReason
alarm system is running and UReason alarming system user and password:

2) And press button Restart to establish connection to UReason alarming system.

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Revision History

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