Section 2 Start-up and Configuration
Alarm and Event Settings
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Client Queue Size
Every OPC Alarm and Event client has a queue in the OPC Server to buffer event
notifications. This number specifies the maximum number of items in every queue.
Each queue has the same limitations. The default value is 2000, the minimum value
is 1500 and maximum value is 5000.
Maximum Number of Alarms
The OPC Server contains a list of all alarms that are not idle (all condition states
except the idle state 2) in the connected controllers. This means that you should use
the
Max number of Alarm variable to setup 'The number of alarms that can possible
be active at the same time'.
Do not confuse this with your total amount of alarms in the system!
The maximum number of alarms defines the maximum number of alarms in the list,
the default value is 5000.
On
list overflow, the latest alarm is deleted and a system simple event is generated to
announce the overflow.
In some cases, in conjunction with large projects, the default
value has proven to be
too low. It is then recommended to increase the setting from 5000 to, for example,
7500.
Other system variables part from those presented here in the
AE Settings dialog
box, can be configured in the
System Variables dialog box (
Settings > System
Variables). See
Setting
System Variables
on page 61.