I have a project that I have inherited from a colleague before me. There is an event log already set up, but I need to add alarm changes to this event log. How can I add the change of state of the alarm to trigger an event log? I need it trigger first when the alarm becomes active, when the alarm becomes acknowledged, and when the alarm is cleared. I see all of these as options in the tag browser for individual alarms, but I don't know how to use those to trigger the event log. I am very new to ignition so any tips are appreciated!
That is what Ignition's Alarm Journal is for--it captures alarm events into database tables. Just add a journal through the gateway web management interface.
Thank you for your help! I do have an alarm journal set up that is logging these alarm state changes exactly as I want, but I need to merge that with the other event log that captures things like button presses and logins so that all of the information is displayed in one single log. Is it possible to create a new alarm journal that would handle alarm events as well as other events? I assumed alarm journal would only handle alarm events.
There's no built-in way to merge alarm logs with other event logs. You would have to write your own SQL queries with UNION operations.
To capture logins and other items, you probably should be using Ignition's Audit system. (But you'd still have to merge the tables yourself.)