Enabling waveforms for onboard alarms

Enabling waveforms for onboard alarms makes them available for viewing in the Power Operation Runtime.

When an onboard alarm occurs at the device, the waveform is captured. They are transmitted to Power Operation and are available for viewing. The amount of time this takes depends on the number of I/O Servers you have and the number of serial devices on a chain. On a large system with numerous serial devices, this could take as long as an hour.

To enable waveforms for onboard alarms:

1. At the device, or via the meter configuration software (PMCU), add the alarm and enable the automatic capture of a waveform when the alarm occurs.
2. In the Profile Editor, on the Create Device Profiles tab, for the same alarm you added in PMCU, check the Waveform box.

You can view the waveform from the Alarm Log in the runtime environment.