Alarms

Presentation

WARNING
EQUIPMENT INCOMPATIBILITY OR INOPERABLE EQUIPMENT Do not rely solely on alarms for the maintenance of your equipment. Failure to follow these instructions can result in death, serious injury, or equipment damage.

For each device connected to the Panel Server, you can enable and/or disable alarms which are issued in the case of electrical events or communication loss.

An active alarm disappears when conditions of the alarm are no longer met.

Alarms are defined by severity:

High severity
Medium severity
Low severity

Availability

This function is available on Panel Server Entry, Universal, and Advanced.

Selecting Alarms

Alarms to be displayed when they become active can be enabled individually for each device as follows:

Click the device name on the EcoStruxure Panel Server webpages, at Settings > Data management.
Click Alarms
Enable/disable an alarm with the Enable alarm checkbox.

NOTE: By default, alarms are disabled.

NOTE: The alarm bit in Modbus register is always active therefore it is not available in the Alarms webpage.

NOTE: When the Panel Server is connected to the Schneider Electric cloud (see Publication on Schneider Electric Cloud), the selection of alarms is managed at the cloud level. Therefore, it is not possible to enable/disable alarms from the Alarms webpage.

Notification of Alarms

When an alarm is enabled and becomes active, it is displayed in the page of the device on the Monitoring and Control webpage.

On Panel Server Advanced:

When an enabled alarm becomes active, a notification is sent to the user by email (see Publication of Emails for Alarms)
From the Notifications menu, you can view a list of alarm notifications.

Alarms

The alarms available on the Panel Server webpages depend on the device type. For details about alarms available on each device, refer to the user guide of the selected device.

The complete list of alarms is as follows:

Alarm severity	Alarm description
High-severity alarms	Capacitor abnormal cosphi alarm
	Capacitor broken step alarm
	Capacitor hunting alarm
	Capacitor low current alarm
	Capacitor max cycles and count step alarm
	Capacitor over current alarm
	Capacitor overload alarm
	Capacitor over temperature alarm
	Capacitor step power loss alarm
	Capacitor too high THDV alarm
	Capacitor voltage tolerance alarm
	Maximum operating time alarm
	Circuit breaker fault trip alarm
	Circuit breaker opened alarm
	Circuit breaker trip alarm
	Current transformer supervision alarm
	Device replacement alarm
	Voltage loss alarm
	Fan error alarm
	Ground-fault alarm
	HeatTag alarm
	Falling edge on input alarm
	Rising edge on input alarm
	Instantaneous overcurrent trip alarm
	Integrated instantaneous overcurrent trip alarm
	Internal cause trip alarm
	Long-time protection trip alarm
	Overcurrent when voltage loss alarm
	Overvoltage alarm
	Overvoltage trip alarm
	Parallel arc fault detection protection trip alarm
	Serial arc fault detection protection trip alarm
	SF6 alarm
	Short-time protection trip alarm
	Tripping chain malfunctioning trip alarm
	Internal trip unit malfunctioning alarm
	Undervoltage alarm
	Voltage transformer supervision alarm
	Zero current alarm
Medium-severity alarms	Battery low alarm
Medium-severity alarms	Trip test not performed alarm
Low-severity alarms	Battery alarm
	Earth-leakage pre-alarm
	Ground-fault pre-alarm
	Long-time overcurrent pre-alarm
	45% rated current alarm
	50% rated current alarm
	80% rated current alarm
	Overcurrent pre-alarm
	Overvoltage pre alarm
	Test pushbutton trip alarm

NOTE:

Concerning MasterPact NT/NW circuit breakers, the ERMS (Energy Reduction Maintenance Setting) feature is limited. ERMS alarm is compatible from Panel Server only when ERMS application is configured on IO module 1. When the application switch of IO module 1 is set to position 3, you may receive a notification of ERMS activation due to electrical noise on the IO module. It does not necessarily indicate that the ERMS mode is activated. Schneider Electric recommends always confirming by checking the present alarm status from the Panel Server webpages and ERMS status indicator on the MasterPact NT/NW circuit breaker. For more information, refer to NHA67346Energy Reduction Maintenance Setting (ERMS) System Installation and User Guide.
Concerning IO module generic function, alarm activation is enabled when the input status is 1.
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When Acti9 iATL24, OFSD or iACT24 auxiliaries are connected under an I/O Smart Link device and commissioned in the Panel Server, if the cable is disconnected from the I/O Smart Link device, a Circuit breaker opened alarm is triggered into the Panel Server instead of the Communication Loss alarm.