Event archive vs. alarm events in Rapid SCADA 6

[Andi]

Hello,

first of all, thank you again for your previous support. We have successfully set up Rapid SCADA 6 with PostgreSQL and Grafana, and everything is working very well.

We are now trying to use the Event archive as the data source for a Grafana State Timeline panel. This archive is ideal because it stores only state changes (instead of continuously storing unchanged digital values).

However, we have encountered a conceptual problem.

For a digital channel (for example, a door contact), we enabled:

Event enabled
Channel data has changed

As expected, every state change is then stored in the PostgreSQL table eventscopy_event.

Unfortunately, these operating state changes also appear in the standard Events window of Rapid SCADA.

Our goal is to keep the Events window reserved for real warnings and alarms only, while still recording normal operating state changes (door contacts, operating modes, pump states, etc.) for historical visualization in Grafana.

Our question is:

Is there a built-in way in Rapid SCADA 6 to separate operational state changes from alarm events?

For example:

– event categories,
– severity levels,
– event classes,
– event filters,
– or any other recommended mechanism?

Or is the intended solution to organize channels into different Views and use “Events by View” so that only the alarm view is displayed to the operator?

We would like to understand the recommended architecture before implementing a workaround.

Thank you very much for your advice.

Best regards,

Andre

[manjey73]

Use an Event Mask
I can’t think of anything else.

[Mikhail]

Hello,
An event contains the Severity field.
The ScadaWebConfig.xml contains the EventArchiveCode option that defines the source for events displayed in the bottom panel on the web page. But there is no filter options for that panel. All events from the specified archive are displayed there. It can be an idea for future improvements.

[Mikhail]

As a workaround you could write data to PostgreSQL with help of DB Export Module. It also can write data on change.

[Mikhail]

Using Auto Control Module, you can create a data change trigger and create new events by that trigger having the different channel number. It may work if the amount of channels is not too big. Otherwise, it is not handy to configure.

• This reply was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Mikhail.

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