Automatic Alarm Event Archiver

Archived Alarm Events Report

User Guides

Rev 2.6 November 8, 2009

CONTENTS Overview ......................................................................................3
Automatic Alarm Event Archiver Application 3
Archived Alarm Events Report Application 3
Easy Archive Maintenance 4
Please Note 4

Installation ...................................................................................5
Overview 5
Select the Cyberstation that will perform Automatic Archiving 5
Select the location of the Archive Directory 5
Install the Continuum Reports “Alarm Event Archiver” bundle. 6
Import the Plain English Programs into Cyberstation 6
Attach Object Level Security 8
Please Note… 9
Activate the Archiver Applications 9
Add new database indexes to the Continuum Database 10
Using “WinSQL” to add Indexes 10
Using “SQL Query Analyzer” to add Indexes 10
Configure Automatic Archiving 11
Schedule the creation of the initial archive database 13
Configure Automatic Archiving For Workstation With CFR Logging 14

Automatic Alarm Event Archiver ...............................................16

Automatic Archiving On / Off 17
Archiving Frequency 17
Next Scheduled Archive Date & Time 17
Archive NOW 18
Auto Archiving – “In Progress” 18
Date & Time of Last Logged Event (Query Start) 18
Show Archive Log 19
Archive to Directory or File 20
Data Encryption 21
Archive Directory or File Statistics 22
Alarm Event Table Truncation 23
Enabling Deletion of Archived Data from Continuum 23
Truncation Frequency 23
Next Truncation Date and Time 23
Delete Data Older than “XX” Days 24
Truncate NOW 24
Hide the Automatic Alarm Event Archiver Window 24
Quit the Archiving Application 25
Backing Up and Restoring Archive Files 25
CFR Logging (Purchased Option) 26

Archived Alarm Events Report...................................................28

Main Screen 28
Alarm Selection 29
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 Alarm Point Selection 30
Controller Names 30
Date Selection 31
Reporting on an Encrypted Archives 32
Email Recipient List 33
Report Filters 33
Report Sorting 33
Settings Files 34
Settings File Hints 35
Archive Statistics 36
Send To Continuum 37
Save As File 37
Emailing a Report 38
Emailed & Saved Report Formats 40
Archived Alarms Report 43
Report Selection Summary Page 44
Print Preview Navigation Bar 45

Unattended Printing, Emailing, and Report Saving................... 46

Overview 46
Schedule Program 46
Report Frequency 46
Report Time 46
Report Type 47
Report Settings File 47
Continuum Reports Subdirectory 47
Next Scheduled Report 48
Configuring More than 1 Scheduled Report 48

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OVERVIEW The Continuum “Alarm Event Archiver” bundle features 2 separate applications
that facilitate the automatic gathering, storage and reporting of Continuum
alarm events using portable database files that are easily backed up to tape,
CD-ROM or moved to any storage media. Retrieval and use of removed
archive data is as simple as copying the off-line monthly files back into the
archive directory. No complicated steps. The archive report writer
automatically uses all of the archive files in the archive directory and generates
the exact same reports as the on-line Continuum report writer without the
overhead of keeping all of the information in the SQL database.

Automatic Alarm Event Archiver Application

• Easy to use “point-and-click” on-screen configuration.

• Archiving to any drive, directory, or specific file.
• Archiving to a directory automatically creates monthly files, named using
“year and month” to clearly indicate data contents.
• No limit as to the number of archive files kept on-line.
• Archiving frequency from every 1 minute, to 999 days.
• Query Start manual override & “Archive NOW” button.
• Automatic & manual alarm event table truncation.
• Truncation frequency from 1 to 999 days.
• Truncate data older than 1 to 999 days.
• Encrypt the data being archived (Encryption option must be purchased
separately).
• CFR Logging capable. (CFR compliance pack must be purchased
separately).
• Archive history log depicting time of archive, number of events archived,
processing time and archive mode.
• Directory and file statistics depicting number of archive files, first archived
event, last archived event and total number of archived events.
• Background operation.
• System Tray status icon.
• Can be automatically launched by a workstation startup folder shortcut.

Archived Alarm Events Report Application

• Easy to use “point-and-click” on-screen configuration.

• Report Preview before Printing
• Start Time / Date Controls. End Time / Date Controls
• “Today”, “Yesterday”, “This Week”, “Last Week”, “This Month”, “Last
Month” , “This Year” and "All Time” quick-picks.
• “Custom” start/end date with automatic relative date calculations.
• Default Configuration “Save” and “Load” feature.
• Configuration “Save” and “Load” feature.
• Select all, or specific Alarms and Points from archived data to include in
report.
• Alarm Event Report, sorted by Alarm, Alarm message, or Time.
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 • Report filtering for Alarm Event, RTN Event, and Faults.
• Save as file to save the report to a .txt, .pdf, or .htm file format.
• Show Logging Timestamps in the report.
• Show each points corresponding Controller Name in the Point selection.
• Show, Modify or hide the reports Email Recipients.
• Send the gathered data back to Continuum. (Restore Archived Data)
• Report on encrypted files or directories. (Requires encryption option)
• Continuum scheduled printing and saving using saved configuration files.

Easy Archive Maintenance

• Archive files and directories can reside on any drive, directory or computer
• Archive files can be backed-up or moved to tape, CD-ROM or removable
media. Any backup application can be used, along with manual copying.
• Archiving “to a directory” automatically creates monthly archive files that
are named using “year and month” to clearly indicate data contents.
• No limit as to the number of archive files kept on-line.
• Removed archive files can be restored from tape, CD-ROM or “Dragged
and Dropped” back into the archive directory. No other steps are required.

Please Note

“Automatic Alarm Event Archiver” and “Archived Alarm Events Report” each
require a software license and activation code for the software key connected
to the workstation’s printer port. Contact Andover Controls to purchase
software licenses, software keys, and activation codes.

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INSTALLATION Overview

During the installation and set up process, you will:

1. Read through this entire document to familiarize yourself with all of the
applications, the installation process and automatic archiving operation.
2. Select the Cyberstation that will perform automatic alarm event archiving.
3. Select the location of the Archive Directory.
4. Install the Continuum Reports “Alarm Event Archiver” bundle.
5. Import the Archiver Plain English Programs into Cyberstation.
6. Attach Object Level Security to the Plain English Programs.
7. Activate the Archiver Applications by entering the Activation Code.
8. Add new database indexes to the Continuum database.
9. Configure Automatic Archiving.
10. Schedule the creation of the initial archive database.

Select the Cyberstation that will perform Automatic

Archiving

Any Cyberstation can run the Archiver, however if possible, select the
workstation that has:

• The most RAM (memory) and fastest processor.

• The fastest and most reliable network connection to the Continuum
database and archive directory.
• The least amount of use.
• No access event or alarm logging responsibilities

Select the location of the Archive Directory

We recommend that you choose a directory on a drive that has at least 2GB of
free space. Be aware that large Continuum databases can generate archive
files that required 5GB, 10GB or greater. As a rough indicator of the archive
drive space requirements, look at \MSSQL7\Data\ContinuumDev.* The current
size of the file roughly approximates the amount of disk space needed to
create a full archive.

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 Install the Continuum Reports “Alarm Event Archiver”
bundle.

1. Uninstall any installed copies of Continuum Reports via Control Panel

"Add/Remove Program" applet.

2. Run the "Continuum_Reports_XXe_Setup.exe" program

Note: If you previously had "Save as File" enabled, you will need to re-enable
this option.

Import the Plain English Programs into Cyberstation

If you are installing Continuum Reports into Cyberstation for the first time,
follow the steps outlined in the “Continuum Reports Installation Guide”.
You will import the “Continuum_Reports.dmp” file, which will create the
standard PE programs that launch each of the individual reports, plus the
“Reports Suite”. Below is the Reports Suite main menu.

Please Note:
The “Automatic Alarm Event Archiver” application, which performs
unattended archiving of all alarm events is not included on the “Reports
Suite” Main Screen because it is designed to be launched by a “shortcut”
in the “All Users Startup Folder”.

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 The “Archived Alarm Events Report” allows you to preview and print archived
alarm events for specific users and time frame. If you want to launch the
“Archived Alarm Events Report” from a Menu Button, or if you want to
schedule the creation or saving of custom archive files:

1. Make a backup copy of the “Alarm_Event_Archiver.dmp” file.

2. Edit the “Alarm_Event_Archiver.dmp” files as follows:

3. Replace all occurrences of "Root\WS1 Folder" with the CyberStation

default folder name.

4. Replace all occurrences of "WS1" with the CyberStation name.

5. If you did not install Continuum Reports in the default “c:\program

files\CONTINUUM_REPORTS” directory, change all occurrences of
"c:\progra~1\continuum_reports\" to the DOS directory pathname.

6. Save the “Alarm_Event_Archiver.dmp” file.

7. Import (into the root) the “Alarm_Event_Archiver.dmp” file.

8. Create new menu buttons with the following configuration: (Don't bother
with the Wizard ⎯ just create the hotspot and edit the properties.)

Button: Archived Alarm Events Report

Execute: c:\program files\continuum\cmdline.exe
Argument: "Run Alm_Arch_Rep"
Button Text: Archived Alarm Events Report

Note:
Before you run the “Alm_Arch_Rep” program for the first time, or before you
use the “Archived Alarm Events Report” button for the first time:

1. Use the Automatic Archiver to build the initial Archive.

2. Run the Archived Alarm Events Report from the Reports Suite.
3. Set up the default Report configuration (Path, Date Range).
4. Click on the “Save As Default” button.

(Performing these steps will prevent the “Act_Arc_Rep” program from reporting
the message, “Sorry! Cannot find the default.lar file!”)

It is strongly recommended that you use object level security to allow the PE
programs to be "run", but not “edited” or “viewed”. (See below)

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 Attach Object Level Security

The purpose of attaching Object Level Security to the Reports PE programs

is to protect the report's launching algorithm from "prying eyes" and alterations.

1. Make sure you're logged into Continuum as an Administrator (usually

ACC)
2. Run the Continuum Explorer
If you previously created “Reports” security level, please jump to step 13.
3. Create the new SecurityLevel, "Reports" (Right click on Root, select New-
>SecurityLevel
4. Click on the "Security" Tab
5. Scroll down and expand to the "Program" class (click on "+")
6. First, give total access to the Administrator group (usually Group 01)
7. Click on all of the "locks" vertically, turning them into "keys", for your admin
group. This will allow the admin group to "Change Out of Service",
"Create", "Delete", "Edit", "Run", etc.
8. Next, give everyone rights to "run".
9. Click on all of the "locks" horizontally, on the "Run" attribute row.
10. Click on "OK", then when prompted, restart Continuum.
11. When Continuum restarts, log on as an administrator.
12. Launch the Continuum Explorer
13. Open up the workstation object
14. Click on the "Program" class folder.
15. Highlight the Alarm Event PE Programs:
- ALM_Archive_Rep
- Schd_ALM_Arc_Rep
14. Right click and select "Properties"
This will open up the Properties Page for each PE program.
15. Click on the "Security Level" Tab
16. Click on "Reports" radio button
17. Click on "OK"
18. Perform steps 15 - 17 for each PE program.

If everything is configured properly:

• Everyone should be able to run all reports

• Only the Administrator should be able to

view, edit, and delete the PE program(s).

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 Please Note…

If you are using Continuum 1.3 or above, the first time you launch Continuum
Reports, you may be asked to enter the database password. If this occurs,
enter the password, then re-launch Continuum Reports.

If you ever need to change the Continuum ODBC user/password, OR if you

change the ODBC DSN, OR if you are getting SQL ODBC errors, you should
reset the password. To do so:

1. Run a MS-DOS prompt

2. CD “C:\Program Files\Continuum_Reports”
3. reports reset password (Note: CASE SENSITIVE)

You will be presented with the "enter password" screen. This will reset all
parameters.

Activate the Archiver Applications

• Use the report’s “Key Writer” to determine the software key’s serial
number or to enter the Activation Code. (See below)

• If you don’t have an Activation Code, contact Andover Controls .

1. Launch a MS-DOS Prompt

2. Enter : CD “c:\program files\continuum_reports” (or the installation path)

3. Enter : reports key writer (Note: case sensitive) The following window will
appear. (Notice the Software Key Serial Number)

4. Enter the Activation Code and click on the “Activate” button.

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 Add new database indexes to the Continuum Database

You will notice a dramatic performance increase when archiving Continuum

Alarm Events by adding a new index to the AlarmEvent Table in the Continuum
Database.

This is a manual, one-time process that can be performed by using “WinSQL”

or “SQL Enterprise Manager”.

MAKE SURE TO BACKUP YOUR CONTINUUM DATABASE

BEFORE PERFORMING THE FOLLOWING STEPS !

Using “WinSQL” to add Indexes

1. Launch “WinSQL” and connect to the Continuum database.

2. Click on the "Query" tab and type:

CREATE INDEX [IX_TimeOfAck] ON [AlarmEvent] ([TimeOfAck]) ON [PRIMARY]

CREATE INDEX [IX_TimeOfLog] ON [AlarmEvent] ([TimeOfLog]) ON [PRIMARY]
CREATE INDEX [IX_TimeStamp] ON [AlarmEvent] ([TimeStamp]) ON [PRIMARY]

3. Click on the "Run Query" button. Please patient as WinSQL creates the
new index.

4. The successful index creation will result with, "This command did not
return data, and it did not return any rows".

Using “SQL Query Analyzer” to add Indexes

1. Launch SQL Query Analyzer

2. Change the database to "ContinuumDB", using the drop-down menu.

3. Enter:

CREATE INDEX [IX_TimeOfAck] ON [AlarmEvent] ([TimeOfAck]) ON [PRIMARY]

CREATE INDEX [IX_TimeOfLog] ON [AlarmEvent] ([TimeOfLog]) ON [PRIMARY]
CREATE INDEX [IX_TimeStamp] ON [AlarmEvent] ([TimeStamp]) ON [PRIMARY]

4. Click on the “Play Button”

Be patient as SQL Enterprise Manager creates the new index.

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 Configure Automatic Archiving

If CFR logging is enabled go to the section “Configure Automatic Archiving For

Workstation With CFR Logging” then proceed to step 10.

Automatic Archiving is initiated by a “shortcut” in the “All Users Startup Folder”.

1. “Right Click” on the Task Bar, “Start” button and select “Explore All users”.

2. Expand the “Programs” folder.

3. Click on the “Startup” folder.

4. “Right Click” in the right-hand pane (below “Service Manager”, if present)

and select, “New -> Shortcut”.
5. Enter “C:\Program Files\Continuum_Reports\Reports.exe” in the text field
asking for “Location of Item”. Click on “Next”

6. Replace “Reports.exe” with “Automatic Alarm Event Archiver” in the text

field asking for “Shortcut Name”. Click on “Finish”

7. Go back to the “Startup” window and “Right Click” on “Automatic Alarm

Event Archiver” and select “Properties”

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 8. If you want the Archiver to launch, then minimize into the System Tray
after 3 seconds, change the “Target” to read:

If you want to Archiver to launch and stay maximized, change the “Target” to
read:

Note: If you did not install Continuum Reports in the default directory, you
must include the DOS installation path after “MIN” or “MAX” in the run string.

ie: “C:\Reports\reports.exe” 10a MAX C:\Reports

9. Test the shortcut by “Double Clicking” on

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 10. Configure the automatic archiving parameters:

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11. Configure the standard archive frequency

12. Decide whether to archive to a Directory, or to a single file.

13. Click on the “Browse” button to select the archive directory or file.

Schedule the creation of the initial archive database

14. Set the “Date & Time of Last Logged Event (Query Start)” to a date prior to
the oldest alarm event. (Simply changing the year to 1998.)

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 15. Set the “Next Archive Date and Time” to the date and time you want the
archiving system to create the initial archive database. Note: Initial
archive creation can take up to 24 hours. The workstation may appear to
be locked up, so schedule archive creation accordingly. Be patient!

16. Click on “Auto Archiving” icon to turn on automatic archiving.

17. Click on “OK” to minimize the application into the system tray.

18. If automatic truncation is desired, check “Delete Archived Data from

Continuum.

19. Enter the truncation interval, in number of days.

20. Enter the “Next Truncation Date and Time”

21. Enter the “Delete Data Older than” number of days.

22. CFR Logging indicator. The indicator is invisible if CFR logging is not
enabled. (Purchased Option)

23. Check to enable encryption on the archived files. (Purchased Option)

Configure Automatic Archiving For Workstation With CFR

Logging

If CFR Logging is enabled the Arhiver requires that Continuum is running

before it can be launched. This section will describe how to automatically
launch the Archiver when Continuum starts up.

1. Edit the Workstations system variable “PowerUpTime”.

2. Click on the “Triggers” tab

3. Click the “Add” button

4. Select the PE Program “Run_Alm_Arch_Min” if you want the archiver

to be minimized at startup. Attach “Run_Alm_Arch” if you want the
archiver to be maximized at startup.

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 5. Click “Ok”

The next time Continuum starts up the archiver will automatically be launched.

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AUTOMATIC ALARM The Alarm Event Archiver Screen provides all of the user configurable settings,
EVENT ARCHIVER status and control:

• Automatic archiving on / off

• Archiving frequency
• Next scheduled archive date and time
• “Archive NOW” feature
• Date & time of last logged alarm event
• Show archive log
• Archive to a directory or file
• Archive directory or file statistics
• Select path to archive directory or file
• Truncation interval, next date and time.
• Delete data older than “x” number of days
• Hide the automatic alarm event archiver window
• Quit the archiving application
• Archive Encryption (Purchased Option)
• CFR Logging (Purchased Option)

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 Automatic Archiving On / Off

Click on the Auto Archiving Icon (or Text) to turn on or off Automatic Archiving.

Archiving Frequency

Enter the archiving frequency. The default value of “Archive every 24 hours”
can be changed to any value between once a minute, to once every 999 days.

Note: Make sure to monitor the Archive Log “Processing Time”. Especially if
the processing frequency is less than 3 minutes.

We recommend that you use the default value of “Archive every 24 hours”.

Next Scheduled Archive Date & Time

As the Archiver operates, it automatically calculates and schedules the next

Archive date and time by taking the scheduled archive time and adding the
archive frequency minutes, hours or days. You can override the current setting
by manually setting the date or time using the date and time controls.

To prevent overload, if an archive build finishes after the ”Next Archive Date &
Time”, the system will skip the current cycle and wait until the next cycle.

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 Archive NOW

Clicking on the “Archive NOW” button will immediately start an archive cycle.

Auto Archiving – “In Progress”

During the archive cycle, the Auto Archiving Icon and Text will display:

After the archive cycle, you will notice that the “Next Archive Date & Time” will
be recalculated based on the scheduled archive time, plus the archive
frequency. If an archive build finishes after the ”Next Archive Date & Time”,
the system will skip the current cycle and wait until the next cycle.

Date & Time of Last Logged Event (Query Start)

Automatically, the Archiver will display (and save) the date and time of the last
logged event, which will then be used as the “Query Start” date and time
parameters for the next archive cycle.

Under normal operation, you will not alter the date or time. If you want to
create or rebuild an archive directory or file, you can manually change the date
and time accordingly.

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 Show Archive Log

Each time an Archive cycle completes, a log entry is created. To view the
Archive Log, click on the “Show Archive Log” button.

The Archive Log Viewer appears:

The log is stored in “AlmEvtArchiveLog.csv”, located in the current archive

directory. A separate log “AlmEvtArchiveLogE.csv” is stored in the same
directory for archives performed with encryption.

To shrink or clear out the log file, use Notepad or Excel to open & edit
“AlmEvtArchiveLog.csv”.

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 Archive to Directory or File
You have the option of Archiving into a Directory, or into a File.

• Archiving to a “Directory” automatically manages your archive and

automatically splits the information into monthly files. Monthly files are
named like, “2001-12_Alarm_Events.dbf”. Notice how the file name
depicts the year and month of the data in the file.

• Archiving to a “File” stores your entire archive in one file, which you
name.

The radio buttons are use to select your archive mode:

When you change to “File” mode, you will notice that the Archiver defaults the
Archive file to “Alm_Archive.dbf”. If “Encrypt Files” is checked the file name will
default to “E_Alm_Archive.dbf”.

To choose a different file, click on the “Browse” button. You may enter a New
archive name, or select an existing archive name.

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 When you change to “Directory” mode, you will notice that the Archiver
defaults the Archive Directory to the current file’s directory.

To choose a different directory, click on the “Browse” button. You may select
the Archive Directory.

Data Encryption
The data being archived can be encrypted by checking off the “Encrypted
Archive Files” check box. If archiving to a single file that one file will be
encrypted. If archiving to a directory, all the files that get created by the
archiving process will be encrypted.

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 Archive Directory or File Statistics
Click on the “Dir. Stats” button to display Directory Statistics

The Directory Statistics windows appears after gathering statistics:

Click on the “File Stats” button to display File Statistics.

The File Statistics windows appears after gathering statistics:

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 Alarm Event Table Truncation

The Automatic Alarm Event Archiver has an Alarm Event table truncation
feature that will delete archived data from Continuum. This feature will keep
the size of the alarm event table from growing too large and hence, keep the
Continuum database from also growing too large. Since this feature checks
the archive database before deleting data from the Continuum database, you
will not run the risk of deleting data that has not yet been archived.

Enabling Deletion of Archived Data from Continuum

Use the check box to enable or disable deletion of archived data:

Truncation Frequency

Set the truncation frequency, in number of days.

Next Truncation Date and Time

Set the next Truncation Date and Time. Subsequent truncation dates and
times are based on the current date and time plus the truncation frequency
setting.

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 Delete Data Older than “XX” Days

Enter the age of the alarm event data to delete. This age is relative to the
current date but fixed to the Time setting of the “Next Truncation Time”. So if
the next truncation time is 4:00am, the number of days is 28, then an
automatic (or manual) truncation will delete records with a DateTime prior to
4:00am, 28 days ago.

Truncate NOW
Click on the “Truncate NOW” button to perform a truncation. The archiving
status and icon on the screen and on the System Tray changes to:

After truncation has completed the following dialog box appears:

Hide the Automatic Alarm Event Archiver Window

When you are satisfied with the settings, hide the Automatic Alarm Event
Archiver Window by clicking on the “OK” button.

The window will hide and an icon appears in the system tray. To show the
Automatic Alarm Event Archiver Window, Right-Click on the icon.

System tray Icon

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 Quit the Archiving Application

If you want to stop automatic archiving and close the application,

click on the “Quit” button.

You will be presented with a confirmation box.

Since all parameters are automatically saved, the application will resume
processing the next time it is launched. Nothing will be lost.

Backing Up and Restoring Archive Files

Back up the Archive Directory regularly to tape, CD-ROM or other media.

Keep as many monthly archive files in the Archive Directory as needed. There
are 2 archive files created for each month – the database file (.DBF) and the
index file (.CDX). These files can be zipped up to 1/8th their original size!

When you decide to remove monthly archive files from the directory, delete
both the database and index files. If tape, CD-ROM or removable media
space is an issue, consider “zipping up” the files before you back them up. (As
last resort, consider only backing up “zipped” database (.DBF) files.)

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 To restore archive files, simply copy them back into the Archive Directory. No
additional steps are required. If you only restore the database file, the index
file will be automatically created the first time the archive file is accessed. Be
aware that re-indexing can take many minutes, if not a few hours, depending
on the size of the archive and the processing speed of the workstation.

CFR Logging (Purchased Option)

When CFR logging is enabled, configuration changes are temporary until the
“Save” button is clicked and a successful electronic signature is recorded. You
may click on the “Cancel” button to cancel your changes.

When CFR logging is enabled all changes to the Automatic Alarm Event
Archiver are written to the Continuum Alarm Event Log.

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 All configuration changes require the successful completion of the Electronic
Signature. You are required to enter a Comment, valid User Name and
Password in order to save the configuration changes.

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ARCHIVED ALARM Main Screen
EVENTS REPORT
The Archived Alarm Events Report allows you to run alarm event reports using
archive files located in the archive directory, or from a specific file.

Use the Date Selection Quick Picks, or the calendar controls to select the start
and end dates. Use the Start and End time controls to complete the date/time
qualification.

Click on the “Gather Events” button to start the search of the archive directory
(or file) for archived alarm events.

Date
Selection
Quick Picks

Please Note:
Archived Alarm Event reporting is always a 2 step process:

1. Gathering events for the selected time frame.

2. Running reports using the gathered data.

After a successful “gather”, the main screen will morph into the report selection
screen:

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 Alarm Selection

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 Check off the Continuum alarm or alarms in the Include column that you wish
to include in the report.

Use the “Include All” button to select all of the cardholder names.

Use the “Exclude All” button to de-select all of the cardholder names

Alarm Point Selection

Check off the Continuum point or points in the Include column that you wish to
include in the report.

Use the “Include All” button to select all of the cardholder names.

Use the “Exclude All” button to de-select all of the cardholder names

Controller Names

The Alarm Points can be displayed with their full path.

To enable this check the “Show Controller Names” check box.

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 Date Selection

There are 2 methods of Date Selection

1. Using the Calendars to manually select the Month, Day & Year.

2. Using the “Date Selection Quick Picks” to automatically select dates.

When manually selecting a date using the Calendars:

1. Select the Year

2. Select the Month
Month
3. Select the Day

Year

Day

Date Setting

Always confirm the Date by checking the Date Setting below the
Calendar.
Use the “Date Selection Quick Picks” to automatically select dates:

Notice how the Start and End Calendars automatically update.

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 Please Note:
The “Custom” button will be automatically selected when you manually select
either the Start or End Date. When you save this setting, the relative dates
are stored, not the absolute dates. This is useful for setting up date selections
like “last 48 hours”… For example, if today is Wednesday and you set the Start
Date to Monday and the End Date to Tuesday and save the setting, each time
you use the setting, the previous 48 hours will be selected.

Reporting on an Encrypted Archives

The Archived Alarm Event Report has the ability to run reports on encrypted
archives. The report can retrieve the encrypted files from a selected directory,
or a specific file.

To report on encrypted directories or files you must first check off “Encrypted
Archive Files”

Select where to search

If “Search All Archive Files in Directory” is selected, the report will only gather
encrypted data from the selected directory.

Note: When reporting on a specific file a file picker will prompt the selection of
a file. If the encryption option has been purchased you need to be conscious of
which files have been encrypted, otherwise the following message will appear
when gathering data.

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 Email Recipient List
If the “Email Archive” option is purchased, the “Show Email Recipients” check
box will appear on the main screen.

To show the Email Recipient List, click on “Show Email Recipients”.

Enter the complete email address for each recipient of the emailed report.

Report Filters

By default the report will display data for Alarm Events, RTN Events, and
Faults. To filter the gathered data uncheck what you wish to exclude from the
report. For example if you wish to only view Alarm Events, uncheck RTN
Events and Faults.

Report Sorting

The Report can be displayed in three different sort orders, Alarm, Alarm
Message or time. The default sort order is by Alarm.

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 Settings Files

All of the Archived Alarm Event Report settings, including the report selection,
start and end dates/times, Alarms, etc., can be saved to “settings files” for easy
recall.

The “default” settings are the settings that are loaded automatically, each time
the application is loaded. Please Note: If there are no archived alarm events
for the default time frame, the following dialog box will appear:

To set your “default settings” after archived alarm events have been gathered

1. Configure the default report, date range, sort order, etc.

2. Click on the “Save as Default” button

If you make changes and want to re-load the default settings, just click on the
“Load Default” button. The system will automatically “gather events” and apply
your default selections.

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 When you need to load a settings file, click on the “Load from File” button. You
will be presented with the “Load a Settings File” dialog box.

After you load a settings file, the screen will reflect the stored settings and the
“Current Settings” field will show the settings file name.

Settings File Hints

1. If you load a settings file and make changes, don’t forget to save the
settings back to the file. Otherwise, your changes will be lost.
2. When you manually select the start date/time and end date/time and save
the settings to a file, the “absolute” dates are not saved. What are saved
are the relative dates. That is, if you selected yesterday at 7:00pm as the
start date and today at 7:00am as the end date, whenever you load this
settings file, the start date/time will always be set to yesterday at 7:00pm
and the end date/time will always be set to today at 7:00am.
3. Normally, you save your settings files in the “Continuum_Reports”
subdirectory. If you plan to use the automatic, time scheduled, “Save to
File”, you should place the settings file in the subdirectory where you want
the report to be saved.

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 Archive Statistics

Click on the “Arc Dir” Button

or “Arc “File”

button to display the archive statistics:

If you want to change the Archive Directory or Archive File, click on the
“Change” Button.

The display will return to the Main Screen, where you can change the archive
directory or file.

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 Send To Continuum

The data that has been gathered for reporting can also be restored to
Continuum by clicking the “Send to Continuum” button.

Save As File
When “Save as File” is checked, you will have the ability to save the report to
a file.

After the report has been run and is being closed a dialog will pop up
prompting you to save.

Notice the save as type is set to your defaulted report format (txt, pdf or htm).

If you don’t want to save the report simply click “Cancel”

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 Emailing a Report
1. Make sure Outlook is running on the workstation.
2. Set up your report selection criteria.
3. Consider clicking on “Run Report” to preview the report…
4. Review the names in the Email Recipient List
5. Click on “Email Report” button.

If Outlook is not loaded and running prior to emailing a report, you will
encounter the following error dialog:

If Outlook is loaded and running, a confirmation dialog box appears indicating

that the report file was created and successfully transferred to Outlook.

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 If you check Outlook, you will see the emailed message:

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 Emailed & Saved Report Formats

The Emailed report can be a standard text , Adobe Acrobat pdf, or htm file.

• The txt file is formatted in fixed columns.

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 • The pdf format is read by Adobe Acrobat Reader.

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 • The htm file format is an HTML version of the report that can be
viewed by a web browser.

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 Archived Alarms Report
The “Archived Alarms Report” shows all alarm events for the selected points,
during the selected time frame. You can specify that the report be sorted by
Alarm, Alarm Message or time.

If “Show Logging Timestamps” is checked the report will display the Log Time
of each alarm.

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 Report Selection Summary Page

A “Report Selection Summary Page”, is printed as the last page of every

report. On this page you will find all of the selection criteria used, such as
report date range, selection filters and the names of all of the points used for
data gathering.

Note: If the main report does not show information for a particular point or
alarm, refer to this summary page to confirm whether or not the point or alarm
name appears in the list. If the name does appear, this indicates that there
were no alarm events. If their name does not appear, then the point or alarm
was not included in the selection set, and the report needs to be re-run with the
proper criteria.

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 Print Preview Navigation Bar

The “Print Preview Navigation Bar” provides you with the ability to:

• Advance to the Next Page

• Advance to the Last Page (Report Summary Page)
• Go to the Previous Page
• Go to the First Page
• Go to a particular Page
• Zoom “In and Out”
• Print the Report

First Page
Print Report
Previous Page

Go to Page#
Zoom In/Out
Last Page
Next Page

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UNATTENDED PRINTING, Overview
EMAILING, AND REPORT
SAVING The “Sched_ALM_Arc_Rep” Plain English program, loaded by the
“Alarm_Event_Archive_Report.dmp” file provides scheduled, unattended
printing, emailing, and report saving. This feature uses a “settings file” to
perform the:

• Alarm and Point Selection

• Start Time & Date Selection
• End Time & Date Selection

Schedule Program

The PE Program, “Sched_ALM_Arc_Rep” has 5 user definable parameters:

• Report Frequency (daily or weekly)

• Report Time (time of day to run)
• Report Type (print, email or save report)
• Report Settings filename to use
• Continuum Reports Subdirectory

Report Frequency

The default report frequency is daily. Change: ReportFreq = "Daily" to

ReportFreq = "Weekly" if you want the scheduler to run the archived alarm
event report, once per week.

The workstation DateTime variable, “Next_ALM_Arc_Rep” holds the date

and time of the next automatic report. Calculation of the next report is based
on adding 24 hours to the value of “Next_ALM_Arc_Rep” (daily) or adding 7
days to the value of “Next_ALM_Arc_Rep” (weekly)

Report Time

The default report time is 3:00 AM. Change: ReportTime = "3:00 AM" to the
time of day you want the scheduler to launch the archived alarm even report.
Always include AM or PM in the string.

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 Report Type

The default report type is Print. Change: ReportType = "Print" to ReportType

= "Email" or ReportType = "Save” to email, or save.

Please be aware of the following:

1. If you select “Print”, the workstation’s default printer is used.

2. If you select “Email”, the email recipients are those saved in the settings
file.

3. If you select “Save”, the report (text) file is saved in the folder where the
settings file is located

Report Settings File

The default settings file is “default” Change: SettingsFile = "default" to the

settings file name you want to use – do NOT include the file extension (.lar)

Note:

To use a settings file in a different path, include the DOS path. ie:
SettingsFile = "J:\MyPath\Default"

Continuum Reports Subdirectory

The default Continuum Report Subdirectory is

"c:\progra~1\continuum_reports\".

Change : RepPath = "c:\progra~1\continuum_reports\" if you did NOT

install Continuum Reports and Alarm Event Archiver in the default
subdirectory.

Note: Always use the DOS equivalent pathname (no spaces).

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 Next Scheduled Report

The workstation DateTime variable, “Next_ALM_Arc_Rep” holds the date

and time of the next automatic report.

• Set “Next_ALM_Arc_Rep” to a date and/or time prior to “now” to force an

automatic report.

• Set “Next_ALM_Arc_Rep” to a date and/or time ahead in the future, to

suppress automatic report generation.

Configuring More than 1 Scheduled Report

If you would like to have more than one scheduled report:

1. Create another workstation DateTime, such as Next_ALM_Arc_Rep

2. Create another workstation Program, such as Sched_ALM_Arc_Rep2

3. Edit Sched_ALM_Arc_Rep2 and replace all occurrences of

Next_ALM_Arc_Rep with Next_ALM_Arc_Rep2

4. Edit the report parameters accordingly.

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