Configuring Station Alarm Counter. ABB MicroSCADA

40 with a file extension .bat to /prog/exec/ folder of MicroSCADA. The commands used in this thesis are shown in Appendix 1.

The first of these commands runs the modified System Info Logging executable which gathers all the system information. The second command runs the modified

MicroSCADA E-mail Alarm application, which creates a list of all the active alarms in MicroSCADA. The application must be run through MicroSCADA program scilc.exe, which allows the code written in SCIL to be run in the C programming language. The third command deletes the previous

MaintenanceReport zip file created by the program and answers “Yes” to the verification message of the delete command.

The fourth command renames the zip file from

“SendMeToProductSupportCenter_date.zip” to “MaintenanceReport.zip”.

Renaming is done, because it is easier to handle the zip file, when it always has the same name. The fifth and sixth commands add the list of active alarms and communication alarms of the stations in to the compressed zip folder already created by the MaintenanceReport.exe program. The “-q” after the command

“zip” defines that the operation is made in the quiet mode.

The very last command sends the whole zip folder by e-mail to the desired address. The structure of this command is described in the previous chapter.

Adding more information to the report can be simply done by adding command lines to the batch file. The additions should be placed before the e-mail sending command.

7.3 Configuring Station Alarm Counter

The station alarm counter is a piece of program used for counting communication alarms occurring in each of the stations and creating a report of them. By default it creates a report on the first day of every month and resets the counters. An example of the report can be seen in Figure 10.