The Alarm Archiver runs on a daily basis, and archives from the alarm log file, alarms that have occurred for the previous day. The user can then display these historical alarms in a graphical window that is very similiar to the RTAP current alarm summary display.

Once the alarms for the selected date is displayed, the user is able to select particular alarms that are of interest, and either print them or save them into a file. Only the alarm message is saved.

Once the alarms for the selected alarm date is displayed, the user is able to filter the alarms. The filtering allows the user to filter alarms based on the following conditions:

time
Allows the user to specify the start and end times for alarms.

acked
Allows the user to specify that only acknowledged alarms are to be displayed.

not acked
Allows the user to specify that only not acknowledged alarms are to be displayed.

point name
Allows the user to specify a regular expression to be applied against the point name for the alarms to be displayed.

alarm class name
Allows the user to specify a regular expression to be applied against the alarm class name for the alarms to be displayed.

alarm severity
Allows the user to specify the alarm severity and criteria of the alarms to be displayed.

alarm type
Allows the user to specify the alarm type of the alarms to be displayed.

alarm message
Allows the user to specify a regular expression to be applied against the alarm message for the alarms to be displayed.