How to squelch the Alarms during the day?
You can choose to stop the Alarms through the use of the Alarm Group inhibit button, through the Gateway or through the Schedule, but before doing so there are a couple of steps that must be completed.
First you need to create your Alarms. The creation of the Alarms is done from the Alarm Browser. To access the Alarm Browser select "Alarm Browser" from the "View" menu or press F7. Once the Alarm Browser is displayed you will see the list of Alarms available on your machine (either the KEdit if you're currently editing an off-line Layout, or the Kaleido-K2 if you are editing an on-line Layout) and their Alarm Inhibition Group if any was defined at the Alarms creation time. Please refer to the documentation to create the Alarms. If no Alarm Inhibition Groups are associated with your Alarms, here is how you can assign them:
- Select the Alarm from the list and click on the "Edit" button. The "Alarm Monitor" dialog should appear containing the configuration of the Alarm.
- Enter or select the name of the group to which the Alarm will belong.
- Click on the "Save" button. You should see the name of the group appearing beside the name of the Alarm in the Alarm Browser.
Continue until all the Alarms you want to enable and disable are associated with groups.
From now on, there are different options to disable your Alarms.
Using the Alarm Group Inhibit Button
The Alarm Group Inhibit Button can be added to any Layout. In operation mode, pressing this Component will toggle the state of the Alarms contained in the group associated with the button. To add and configure this Component within your Layout:
- From KEdit open the Layout (either by connecting on-line to a Kaleido-K2 or by opening a Layout from a file)
- Select the Alarm Group Inhibit Button icon from the Component toolbar.
- Click on your Layout and adjust the position and size of the Component.
- Select "Configuration Panel" from the "View" menu or press F5 to view the Configuration Panel.
- In the Alarm Group drop-down select the name of the Alarm Group that will be driven by the button.
- Click on the "Apply" button located at the bottom of the dialog.
- Save your Layout.
- If it is not already on-line on a Kaleido-K2 apply it on-line.
The Alarms of the group associated with the Alarm Group Inhibit Button should be enabled. Pressing the button will disable them. Pressing again on the button should re-enable the Alarms. This button will toggle the state of the Alarms associated with the group each time it is clicked.
Using the Gateway
It is possible to operate the Kaleido-K2 using its Internal Gateway. The Gateway is a very flexible and powerful tool that is usually used through a program but the Gateway can also be used via telnet. The following explanations will guide you through the use of the Gateway via the HyperTerminal software.
First you must verify if the Internal Gateway service is running on your Kaleido-K2.
The internal gateway is configured through the Kaleido Properties File, and is turned on or off by editing that file. Here is how to do it:
- From your Kaleido-K2's desktop, double click on the icon "My Computer".
- Navigate to "C:\iControl\Startup\" and open the file "Kaleido.properties" using the Notepad (right click on the "Kaleido.properties" file and select "Notepad" from the "Open With" menu).
- Search the file for either of the following lines:
activateInternalGateway=TRUEactivateInternalGateway=FALSE- If activateInternalGateway is TRUE, the internal gateway is ON by default at startup. Disable the internal gateway at startup by replacing TRUE with FALSE in this line.
- If activateInternalGateway is FALSE, the internal gateway is OFF by default at startup. Enable the internal gateway at startup by replacing FALSE with TRUE in this line.
- Save your changes using the Save item in the File menu.
- Close the Notepad editor.
- Restart the Kaleido.
The internal gateway supports all Kaleido/Gateway commands when connected via port 13000, and supports only the <listnodes\> command when connected via port 10001.
Your Gateway service is now up and running.
Open the HyperTerminal software on your computer, and from the "Program" menu choose "Accessories", "Communications" and "HyperTerminal". A dialog will appear, asking you to enter a name for the connection and to select an icon.
A second dialog, "Connect To", will appear. In the "Connect using" dropdown field choose "TCP/IP (Winsock)". Two new fields will appear, in the "Host address" field enter the IP address of your Kaleido-K2 and in the "Port number" field enter "13000". This indicates that you want to connect to your Kaleido-K2 via the port 13000. Click on the "OK" button.
To be able to see the typed characters:
- Select "Properties" from the "File" menu, the "Properties" dialog box appears.
- Go to the "Settings" tab, click on the "ASCII Setup..." button located at the bottom of the dialog.
- Select "Echo typed characters locally".
- Click on the "OK" button and click again on the "OK" button from the "Properties" dialog.
You can now see the typed characters appearing in the console.
Commands can be sent to the Gateway while a session is open. There is no maximum number of commands that can be sent in a session. A session must be opened and closed using two specific commands. While sending a command the syntax must be exact. If you make a mistake in the syntax, the command will not be understood. Here is a rough example of a session:
Open a session
send command
send command
...
send commandClose the session.
To open a session enter the following command:
<openID>IP_ADDRESS_0_4_0_0</openID>
Where:
If the Gateway receives the command, and recognizes it as a command that can be handled, it will send you the following response:
<ack/>
If the command cannot be recognized the following message will appear:
<nack/>
If you received this message, please consult the Gateway documentation included on the Kaleido-K2 CD to troubleshoot the installation and communication.
You are now ready to send commands. There are commands to enable and disable Alarm Groups. Here is the syntax for the command that enables an Alarm Group:
<setKEnableAlarmGroup>set name="NameOfTheGroup"</setKEnableAlarmGroup>
Where:
If you received a <ack/> the specified Alarm Group should now be enabled on your Kaleido-K2.
The syntax to disable an Alarm Group is the following:
<setKDisableAlarmGroup>set name="NameOfTheGroup"</setKDisableAlarmGroup>
Where:
You can execute as many commands as you want. When you want to stop sending commands you have to close the session. The following command is used to close a session:
<closeID>IP_ADDRESS_0_4_0_0</closeID>
Where:
Your session is now closed.
To end the communication, select the "Disconnect" icon from the toolbar.
Using the Schedule
You can enable and disable Alarms using the Schedule. Since a Schedule can only be created in on-line mode you need to open the Layout. To do so:
You are now in on-line mode.
You must have an Action that disables an Alarm Group. The following steps will guide you through the creation of this Action:
- Select the "Action Browser" option from the "View" menu or press F9. The "Action Browser" dialog will appear; it lists all the Action objects that are defined on your Kaleido-K2.
- Click on the "New" button located at the bottom of the dialog, the "Action Configuration" dialog should appear.
- Enter a name for your Action.
- In the Action List section click in the "Type" column of the first row and select "Alarm Group" from the list. The "Alarm Group Configuration" dialog should appear.
- Indicate that you want to disable the Alarm Group.
- Select the name of the Alarm Group from the list of the existing Alarm Groups.
- Click on the "Ok" button.
- Click on the "Save" button.
The Action is now created and you can use it. Repeat the same steps to create an Action that will be used to re-enable the Alarms associated to the same group, don't forget to select "Enable" in the "Alarm Configuration Dialog" this time!
It is now the time to create an entry in the Schedule.
- Select "Schedule" from the "View" menu. The "Schedule Editor" appears, showing you the Schedule Entry objects already created, if any.
- Click on the "New..." button located at the bottom of the dialog. The "Schedule Entry" editor appears.
- Since you want your Alarms to be disabled every day during the day select the "Recurrent Executions" option. You now have access to more fields.
- Select the days on which you want your Alarms to be disabled.
- Enter the time at which you want your Alarms to be disabled. This field works like a time code field: simply enter the digits and they will move to left. If you want your Alarms to be disabled at 8 AM simply enter 8-0-0-0-0 and it should display "08:00:00".
- Select the name of the Action you created that disabled the Alarms from the specified group.
- Click on the "Ok" button.
Back to the "Schedule Editor" you should see that a Schedule Entry has been added. You now need to create a new Schedule Entry so your Alarms will be re-activated at night:
- In the list click on the newly added Schedule Entry.
- Click on the "Duplicate..." button. The "Schedule Entry Editor" appears with all the information of the previously created Schedule Entry.
- Go to the time field and press on the spacebar of your keyboard. The time should now indicate "00:00:00".
- Enter the time at which those Alarms will be enabled again. Note that this value is based on a 24-hour clock. To get 6PM, which is 18h, enter 1-8-0-0-0-0. You should now see "18:00:00".
- In the Action drop down select the name of the Action that enabled the Alarms of the Group.
- Click on "Ok".
Back to the "Schedule Editor" you should see another entry that describes the enabling of the Alarms. Click on the "Save" button to save the modifications you made to the Schedule.
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