The alarming features in DAQFactory allow you to watch for certain alarm events. When an alarm event occurs, the alarm is said to have fired. Once fired, it will show up as an active alarm in the alarm summary view. Alarms remain active until a reset condition occurs at which time they are reset. Even when an alarm resets it still must be acknowledged for it to stop displaying in the alarm summary view. In this way if a part of your system goes out of bounds for a short time when you weren't watching, you will still see this as an alarm.
Alarm events are logged to disk either as an ASCII file or in an ODBC database. Alarm events can also trigger sequence events to perform other actions when an event occurs.
Alarming is only available in the Pro and Developer versions of DAQFactory.
