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Assume that you have just received a telephone call from your CIMScan monitoring system telling you the the water level in the river is dangerously high. You react by bringing up a web browser on your computer and logging into the CIMScan server. The screenshot below is typical of what you'd see after logging on.
Any monitoring points that need your attention are displayed in the grid at the top of the page (the Alarm List). All of the points for the group are displayed in the lower grid. Select one or more points and and display a chart of their values plotted over time.
A multi-group status page [1] would have been displayed for users that have been given access to more than one group. The page is similar to the page described above except that the alarm list contains the monitoring points in warning or alarm from all the groups. You can click on a specific group to to move to the status page for that group [2].
- The current values, alarm status, and time of the last update for all the monitoring points are available. You can select one or more points and generate a Trend Chart or Print a Report using the Actions dropdown list.
- You can see all the monitoring points in alarm by looking at the alarm list. You can acknowledge alarms by selecting the monitoring point from the list and clicking on “Acknowledge” in the Actions dropdown list.
- A page can be displayed containing the floor plan of the area being monitored with alarm indicators for each sensor.
- Users can click on the “Help” menu to download one of the user’s manuals in PDF format.
- Clicking on the “Reports” menu will allow you to select the type of report to print. This will display a form where you can specify the monitoring points to be included in the report as well as the starting and ending times.
The following built-in reports are provided with each CIMScan-server. Each report can be generated for a specific group over a user-selected period of time.
- Group Status Report
This report contains the general statistics (average (mean), maximum, minimum, and standard deviation) for each monitoring point along with a list of alarm conditions that were detected and their acknowledgments. Any user notes that were entered during the period of the report will be printed along with the name of the person entering the note and the time.
- Alarm History Report
This report contains a chronological list of alarms that were detected and when they were corrected.
- Measurement Data Log Report
This report contains a tabular list of all the measurements that were recorded for the specified monitoring point to points and the time that the measurement was taken.
- User Notes Report
This report contains all of the user notes that were entered for the selected monitoring points during the reporting period.
- Trend Report
This report contains a plot of the selected measurement points over the period of time of the report. A user can zoom an pan the chart to focus on the desired event.
- Sensor Usage Report
This report contains a listing of the sensor usage
- Audit Trail Report
This report contains a chronological list of settings changes that could affect the data gathering and storage as well as the alarm detection and alerting.
- Statistics Summary Report
This report contains a summary of the hourly statistics gathered for each monitoring point.
- Statistics Detail Report
This report contains a summary of the hourly statistics over the period of the report as well as a tabular listing of the entries summarized by hour, day, week, or month. The report also contains a trend plot of the latter that can be zoomed and panned to focus on a specific event.
- Alarm Limits Change Report
This report lists all of the alarm and warning limits made to the selected monitoring points during the reporting period.
Users can easily generate their own custom reports using any one of the third party report generators available today.
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