Application
Options
To access the Application Options
dialog, in the Display Builder select Tools>Options.
Options specified on Alerts tabs can be saved in an initialization file (ALERTOPTIONS.ini). On
startup, the initialization file is read by the Display Builder, Display Viewer,
Display Server, Data Server and Historian to set initial values. If no
directory has been specified for your initialization files
and
ALERTOPTIONS.ini
is not found in the directory where you started the
application, then Enterprise RTView will search under lib in your
installation directory. NOTE: When you start an Enterprise RTView application
from the Windows Start menu, it runs from the demos directory.
NOTE: Options specified using
command line arguments will override values
set in initialization files.
There are three Application Options tabs
for Alerts: Alerts, Alert Definitions and Self Service Alerts.
Alerts
The Alerts tab allows you to set alert
options.
| Alert History Depth |
Sets the number of rows
that are stored in the AlertTable. |
| Rate To Remove Cleared Alerts |
Enter the time, in
seconds, to control how often RTView will remove all cleared alerts from the
Alert data source. NOTE: This rate is evaluated during each update pass, so the
amount of time elapsed between removing cleared alerts may be longer than the
value entered. For example, if the update period is two seconds and the Rate to
Remove Cleared Alerts is five seconds, the cleared alerts will be removed every six seconds. |
Alert Definitions
This tab allows you to to enable alerts, set options for your alert
definitions, and add, remove or refresh your Alert Definition files.
Once you have added an Alert Definition
file and, optionally, entered a corresponding substitution, click Apply to execute. The
Alert Definition file will be added to the data source. The
Alert Variables Table updates
with all active alerts from the Alert Definition file and the alerts begin
executing. NOTE: Alerts without names or with duplicate names will not be added.
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| Enable Alerts |
Enables/disables all alerts in all active Alert Definition files. |
| Initial Delay |
Duration (in seconds) to wait after startup before evaluating alerts. |
| Alert Definition File |
File(s) that contain
alert definitions. See Alerts for
information on creating Alert Definition files. |
| Substitutions
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Optionally specify substitutions
for this Alert Definition File. Substitutions must use the following syntax:
$subname:subvalue $subname2:subvalue2
If a substitution value contains
a single quote, it must be escaped using a / :
$filter:Plant=/'Dallas/'
If a substitution value contains
a space, it must be enclosed in single quotes. Do not escape these single
quotes:
$subname:subvalue $subname2:'sub
value 2'
A substitution string cannot contain
the following:
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| Add |
Click Add and select a (.rtv) file to
include in Alert Definition
File list. NOTE: Alert
definitions are only added after you click OK,
Apply
or Save. |
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| Remove Selection |
Remove the selected Alert Definition file. Alerts in this Alert
Definition file will no longer execute and the alert data for these alerts will
no longer be available in the Alert data source.
NOTE: Alert
definitions are only removed after you click OK,
Apply
or Save. |
| Refresh Selection |
Reload the
selected Alert Definition file immediately. This option allows the data source to re-read
an
Alert Definition file without restarting the Display Builder. NOTE: Refresh
Selection is enabled when you select an Alert Definition file that has
already been added and applied. |
Self Service Alerts
Self Service Alerts make
it easy to set and persist threshold, duration and enabled settings for your
alerts in a database. For details, see
Alerts>Self Service Alerts.
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| Enable Self
Service Alerts |
Select to enable self service alerts. NOTE: If this option is selected, no
alerts will be loaded into the system unless the specified Self Service
Alerts Database is configured and connected. |
| Self Service
Alerts Data Server |
Enter name of a named data server connection or leave blank to use the
default data server
connection, if specified. This data server will be used
when connecting to the Self Service Alerts Database. |
| Self Service
Alerts Database Name |
Name of SQL Database connection defined in the
SQL tab of the
Application Options dialog. |
| Alert
Settings Table Name |
Name of table where your alert settings will be stored. See below for
a description of the schema for this table. |
| Audit Table
Name |
Name of the table where a record of all changes to the
Alert Settings
Table will be stored. This value is optional. If not specified, no record
of changes will be stored. |
|
Clean Alert Settings Table on Start |
Select to
delete entries from the Alert Settings Table for alert names that are
not defined in RTView. NOTE: This is done at startup after alert
configuration files are processed
and all of the alerts are loaded. |
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