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Alarm Log History Internal Report

Alarm Log History Internal Report

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Alarm Log History (Internal) Report

Report #:   2114

Module:    Account Management

Overview

The Alarm Log History (Internal) report provides data from the Alarm Log and/or the Open / Close log for internal company use. This report provides comprehensive information that you can restrict to company use only (internal use). Options mo117 and mo118 control whether passcard numbers and call list phone numbers appear on this report output.

You may set up an account in Data Entry so that SBN automatically emails or faxes this report when the report runs. To use this feature, you must set Flag 10 to either fax or email in the Rep Flag field of the Basics tab.

To access this report, select Alarm Log History (Internal) (report #2114) from the main menu of SBN.

The Alarm Log History (Internal) Report

This window contains two panes: use the upper pane to define the content of the report; use the lower pane to define the job output - how, when, and where you want to print the report.

Note: See Report Parameters Pane for information on the fields in the lower pane, which are the same in every report.

Field Descriptions

The following table describes the fields used in the upper pane of this report.

Note: You can use wildcard characters in selected fields. For more information about using wildcards, see Searches.

Field

Wildcards
Allowed

Description

Period

Date - From
(No label)

No

You must select a date or a range of dates to limit the report to log entries that occurred during that range. Select the beginning date of the range.

This field defaults to the current date.

Time - From
(No label)

No

You may select a range of time to limit the report to log entries that occurred during that range. Select the beginning time of the range.

  • This field defaults to 0:00 (Midnight).

  • You can use either the user time or the premises time for the report when you specify which you prefer in the field, User Time.

Date - To
(No label)

No

You may select a range of dates to limit the report to log entries that occurred during that range. Select the ending date of the range.

This field defaults to tomorrow’s date.

Time - To
(No label)

No

You may select a range of time to limit the report to log entries that occurred during that range. Select the ending time of the range.

  • This field defaults to 0:00 (Midnight).

  • You can use either the user time or the premises time for the report when you specify which you prefer in the field, User Time.

User Time

No

If this field displays a check mark, the report runs and display data according to user time.

Remove the default check from this field to run the report and display data according to premises time.

Layout

No

Type the number of the layout you want to use. The default layout is 1. Companies may request additional layouts through IBS.

Incident No

Yes

You may type a specific incident to limit the report to that incident.

  • If you specify an incident, SBN ignores all other parameters.

  • If you leave this field blank, the report prints all incidents that fall within the other parameters.

Installation Range

Installation - From

No

You may type a range of installation numbers to limit the report to installations within that range. Type the beginning installation number of the range.

Installation - To
(No label)

No

You may type a range of installation numbers to limit the report to installations within that range. Type the ending installation number of the range.

Sort by

No

You must select a sorting parameter for the report.

When this field appears on a report with a mail group identifier parameter, the Mail Group takes precedence. In that case, this field applies only to CIDs without any mail group identifier.

CID Range

CID

No

You may type a range of CID numbers to limit the report to CIDs within that range. Type the beginning CID number of the range.

CID

No

You may type a range of CID numbers to limit the report to CIDs within that range. Type the ending CID number of the range.

Event Extensions

No

You may select an event extension to limit the report to log entries that include that event extension.

Priority Range

Priority

Yes

You may type a range of priorities to include in the report. Type the beginning priority number of the range.

If you leave these fields blank, the report includes all priorities.

Priority

Yes

You may type a range of priorities to limit the report to records with priorities within that range. Type the ending priority number of the range.

If you leave these fields blank, the report includes all priorities.

Zone Type

Yes

You may select a zone type to include in the report or use the % wildcard to include all zone types. (This menu originates from program #1733.)

Event

Yes

You may select an event type to include in the report or use the % wildcard to include all event types.

Include Open / Close Log

No

Enter a check mark in this box to include Open / Close data in the report.

Include Alarm Log

No

Enter a check mark in this box to include Alarm Log data in the report.

Include Comment

No

Enter a check mark in this box to include Alarm Log comments in the report.

Include Text Detail

No

Enter a check mark in this box to include the text description of the event or comment in the report.

Include ’r;Non-printable’

No

Enter a check mark in this box to include those items flagged as non-printable by the P command in monitoring, and zones that do not have the print flag set.

Exclude CID

No

Enter a check mark in this box to exclude the CID number from the report.

Exclude Paging Detail

No

Enter a check mark in this box to exclude the text associated with a monitoring page from the report.

Incident Mode

No

Enter a check mark in this box to include the incident mode in the report.

Open / Close Status

No

You may include up to six Open / Close statuses in the report; double-click in the corresponding Include column.

Open / Close Type

No

You may include up to four Open / Close Types in the report; double-click in the corresponding Include column.

Report Flags

Print Flag 1-10

No

You may limit the report to records with specific report flags by clicking in the field to the right of any of ten corresponding print flags, and selecting the report flag from the corresponding menu. (This menu originates from program #1555.)

  • If you leave all fields blank, the report includes all report flag values.

  • If you set up Mail Groups as report selection parameters, you must leave all report flag fields blank.

  • SBN uses Report Flag 10 to parse the output of this report.

    • Select M for email parsing. SBN only includes installations that have M for Report Flag 10 and also match other report parameters. SBN parses the report for email by addresses.e_mail1. SBN then emails only relevant pages of the report to each matching email address. In addition to the parsing, SBN emails the entire report to the address typed in the Email field of the lower pane of the report parameters, if available.

    • Select F for fax parsing, SBN only includes installations that have F for Report Flag 10 and also match other report parameters. SBN parses the report for faxes by addresses.fax. SBN faxes only relevant pages of the report to each matching fax number. In addition to the parsing, SBN faxes the entire report to the number typed in the Fax field of the lower pane of the report parameters, if available.

Mail Groups

Mail Gr1

Yes

You may select a specific Mail Group 1 group to limit the report to those records that match that group, or use the % wildcard to include all Mail Group 1 groups in the report.

If you set up Mail Groups as report selection parameters, you must leave all report flag fields blank.

Exclude

No

You may exclude a Mail Group 1 group from the report by selecting the group and then entering a check mark in this box.

Mail Gr2

Yes

You may select a specific Mail Group 2 group to limit the report to those records that match that group, or use the % wildcard to include all Mail Group 2 groups in the report.

If you set up Mail Groups as report selection parameters, you must leave all report flag fields blank.

Exclude

No

You may exclude a Mail Group 2 group from the report by selecting the group and then entering a check mark in this box.

Branch Ranges

Branch

Yes

You may select up to three ranges of branches to limit the report to branches within the ranges. Select the beginning branch number of a range. (These menus originate from program #1530.)

Branch

Yes

You may select up to three ranges of branches to limit the report to branches within the ranges. Select the ending branch number of a range. (These menus originate from program #1530.)

Exclude

No

You may exclude ranges of branches from the report by selecting the ranges and then entering a check mark in the corresponding Exclude box.

Dealer Ranges

Dealer

Yes

You may select up to three ranges of dealer IDs to limit the report to dealer IDs within the ranges. Select the beginning dealer ID of a range. (These menus originate from program #1537.)

Dealer

Yes

You may select up to three ranges of dealer IDs to limit the report to dealer IDs within the ranges. Select the ending dealer ID of the range. (These menus originate from program #1537.)

Exclude

No

You may exclude ranges of dealer IDs from the report by selecting the ranges and then entering a check mark in the corresponding Exclude box.

Note: You must select at least one Include flag to identify the information you want to view in the report.

Running and Viewing a Report

For information on running and viewing a report, see Common Functions in SBN.

Report Example

The following graphic shows an example of the output of the Alarm Log History (Internal) report.

Column Descriptions

The following table describes the columns used in the output of the report.

Column

Description

Date

Premises date of log item.

Time

Premises time of log item.

Incident

Incident number of log item.

Sch

Open / Close schedule number of log item.

Al

If this column displays an X, an alarm occurred.

Operator

Operator ID of person who entered log item or handled alarm.

TermID

Terminal ID of person who handled alarm.

Lix

Line index number of open / close schedule.

P

If this column displays an X, the event does not print when a report is generated.

S

If this column displays an X, a supervisor marked the incident so it does not print when you generate a consumer report.

M

If this column displays an X, the date and time for this event are manually selected, not standard.

B

CID number from which the signal was received, if received from an account with multiple CIDs.

l  If the Backup CID column in the Alarm Log displays a period (.), the signal originates from the primary CID.

l  If this field displays numbers 2 - 9, the signal originates from the second through ninth CID.

l  If this field displays an X, the signal is received from the 10th CID.

O    When option ba219 is on, base 0 is used for the CID index in the log. This means that if base 0 is being used, the first CID is index 0.

O    When option  ba219 is off, the first CID is index 1.

Event

Event code of the log item.

Status

Reported status of log item.

Zone

Number of zone reported, if applicable.

Area

Area ID of zone reported.

Code

Code of zone reported.

Type

Type of alarm reported.

Prio

Priority (1-99) of the signal received.

Scheduled Date / Time

Open / Close schedule date and time for event.

Button Functions

The following table displays the buttons, describes the shortcut keys, actions, and functionality.

Button

Name

Shortcut Key

Action

Description

Recurring

Alt+F1

2114

Open fields for recurring/template reports.

Exit

Esc

2114

Exit without saving.

Save

Enter

2114

Save existing record.

Modifications and Updates to Alarm History Log (Internal) Report

The following table lists modifications and updates to the Alarm Log History (Internal) Report document.

Mod Number

Date

Description

n/a

07/17/14

Images updated.

n/a

04/06/20

Images updated.



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