AlarmTable

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= Alarm Tree and Alarm Tablee = '''Purpose: Watching alarms from an EPICS-based control system'''

'''Prerequisites:''' This is not an introduction to EPICS but to the alarm-related views of the Control System Studio, therefore some experience with EPICS-based systems is necessary.BR

PageOutline(2-3, A brief introduction for using the Alarm Tree View and the Alarm Table View follows, inline)

== Right after the start of CSS ==

After closing the welcome page you will see the default perspective:

Image(01_CSS_Default_Perspective.png)BR

At first let us take a look at some process variable. Open the Probe View from the menu:

Image(02_Start_Probe.png)BR

and enter the name of a process variable which must be reachable within your subnet. Then rearrange the display, so it will look tidy:

Image(03_Probe_Tidy.png)BR

To make Island appear tidy, I minimzed the navigator view and the editor area. I also dragged the console view to the bottom of the probe view and changed the size of the whole css window to a reasonable size.

How do you proceed if this does not work?

• If you do not know how to resize and reorder views, you should read about this here ((...))
• If you have no EPICS-based control system at hand you may want to use a test system (so called soft-ioc). Read the section ''Setting up a Soft-IOC'' to get you started.
• If you want to have access to process variables from your facilities, we expect them not to be in your subnet. Thus they will not be reachable without a small amount of configuration. Read the section ''Configuring access to your EPICS-based system''.

== Setting up a Soft-IOC ==

== Configuring access to your EPICS-based system ==

== Watching alarms with the alarm tree ==

== Saving the facility model ==

== Watching alarms with the alarm table ==