Email Alarms

[mjrx]

I am currently sending out alarms via email. If an alarm becomes active it sends out email. However if that alarm becomes inactive and then becomes active again it will resend the alarm. Is there a way to send it only once when it becomes active and if not again until it is acknowledged? Certain conditions may "toggle" the alarm on and off several times and right now it sends out a seperate email for every toggle. I would like to "one shot" a single alarm to email out and not allow the same alarm to email until that particular alarm is ack'd. I thought I could use $Alarm.unacked member but that counts all of the alarms, not a single one. It could probably be done with a Mailer object for each alarm, but that seems crazy. Anyone run into this?

[Mike@Forshock]

Create a flipflop or latchgate.

Attached Lookout 6.7 example

[mjrx]

I'm not sure I understand this. I couldn't open the .LKS file, I have 6.6

[mjrx]

Mike, can you explain how to do this, I cannot open 6.7 file. Thanks.

[Mike@Forshock]

Create a latchgate (EmailSendToggleLG)

Create a mailer (SendMailMLR)

Edit Connections

SendMailMLR.send = SendLogical and !EmailSendToggleLG

Edit Latchgate

Turn on = SendMailMLR.send

Turn off = AckLogical

For example, say the SendLogical is Alarm1.Active

And the AckLogical is !Alarm1.active

For multiple alarms we could create an expression that counts the active, unacked alarms

SendLogical=$Alarm.unacked>1

AckLogical=$Alarm.unacked<1

Very rough, but hopefully that works for you.

[mjrx]

I get the jist of it, I'll try and work with that. Thanks very much.