The display options combine the settings that determine which data is displayed in the various displays and views of the Alert Monitor. You can also determine whether and with what frequency the display should be refreshed.
Monitor-Specific Settings of the Display Options
If automatic refreshing is activated, the Alert Monitor updates the display with the information currently available in the monitoring system. The refreshes are performed at the intervals that you define in the display options. The alert monitoring tree is not rebuilt during a refresh; rather, the existing MTEs are updated with the currently available information. We recommend that you choose a refresh time of at least 300 seconds.
You can also manually update the Alert Monitor by choose the Refresh pushbutton (), or by performing other operations that trigger a refresh, such as exiting the Alert Browser, or switching from the Open Alerts view to Current Status.
You can determine which data is displayed in the detail display (see Display Detail Data and Tailor Display).
Global Settings of the Display Options
You can determine whether the Alert Monitor display should contain MTEs that are not currently functioning. Possible reasons for this are:
If you display error nodes of this type, these nodes are indicated by a symbol () displayed after the node.
You can determine whether the most recent relevant value is displayed in the Current Status view, or whether you simply want to be informed about the current status of the node by its color.
You can determine whether the message text for the alert is displayed in the Open Alerts view; you can also define in superordinate nodes whether the alert text or the source of the alert is displayed.
To set the display options in the Alert Monitor, follow the procedure below:
Function | Tab Page |
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Refreshing the Monitor Display |
General |
Detail Display Settings |
Tree Display |
Displaying Error Nodes |
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Displaying the Current Measured Values |
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Displaying the Alert-Details |
Detail Data Display |