Alarm Viewer is a displayer for the alarm system messages. It is a viewer which can at once display the status of all systems of one particular machine. For each system there is a table cell which shows the number of fatal, error and warning alarms. By selecting one or several systems it is possible te examine the alarms in details, which enables you to see all the properties and definitions of a particular alarm.
By default the Alarm Viewer will only display the active alarms and will only show one instance of a particular alarm (no heartbeats etc.). However, through the application menu it is possible to select an option that the terminated alarms are displayed as well (show active alarms only) or event to display all the alarms in the system (collapse alarms). By double-clicking one of the alarms an alarm definition dialog will popup and display the history of the alarm (all alarms from the same server/device[code]).
The Alarm Viewer operates in two different modes: live and history. When in live mode the viewer will display alarms which occured in the last 2 hour window and when in the history mode, user has an option to define the window from which the alarms will be loaded from the archive server.
Alarm Viewer can be started by running the java class.
de.desy.tine.apps.AlarmViewer
This will start a plain Alarm Viewer, with the first available machine selected.
Run the Alarm Viewer with Java Webstart (only accessible from DESY internal network).
Alarm Viewer supports all start-up parameters described in the common features section. In addition one can also use the following parameters to preconfigure the application.
Example: we want to start the alarm viewer with selected context FLASH.
java -Dav.machine=FLASH
-cp [classpath] de.desy.tine.apps.AlarmViewer