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6.4 State Panels

6.4.1 Basic Concepts and Terms

State panels are designed to display the statuses of a large number of monitoring objects simultaneously, enabling quick assessment of the overall system health and prompt planning of responses to alarm situations.

A state panel is a table of color-coded elements (Figure 196), where each element represents a monitored object. The color of each element reflects the object's current status (statuses and their associated colors are described in Section 5.3). The object's name is displayed on each element.

Figure 196. State panel scheme Figure 196. State panel scheme

State panel elements can represent:

  • Monitoring objects — shows the individual object's status.
  • Virtual services — shows the status of a virtual service.
  • Locations — shows the aggregate status of all objects in the selected location.
  • Static graphic elements — used for layout design purposes.

State panels are created and edited using the State Panel Editor (Section 6.4.2) and can be visualized in a dedicated browser window in View mode, or embedded in a workspace using the State panel widget (Section 12.2.4).

Figure 197. Example of the state panel in view mode Figure 197. Example of the state panel in view mode (the red arrow indicates the alarm information pop-up window)

Note

When monitoring objects are enabled, disabled, or deleted from external pages, the State Panel on any currently open pages will not update automatically. Refresh the page (F5) to reflect the changes.

6.4.2 Configuring State Panels

To open the list of state panels, go to the Configuration screen and select State panels in the Workspaces & layouts section (Figure 198).

Figure 198. Menu for working with state panels Figure 198. Menu for working with state panels

The state panels list screen is shown in Figure 199. The list is a table where each row is a state panel, with the following columns:

  • Name — the name of the state panel.
  • Description — a free-form description.

To edit a state panel, click its name. To create a new one, click the New state panel button. Both operations open the state panel editor.

Figure 199. List of state panels Figure 199. List of state panels

The editor screen (Figure 200) consists of two areas: the Constructor panel on the left and the State panel layout on the right. Drag objects from the constructor panel into the desired column on the layout to place them.

Figure 200. Example of state panels editor screen Figure 200. Example of state panels editor screen

The constructor panel has the following tabs:

  • Nodes — contains node symbols that can be expanded to reveal individual monitoring objects. You can drag an entire node (adding all its monitoring objects) or individual objects onto the layout.
  • Virtual services — contains virtual service symbols. Drag a service onto the layout to show its status on the state panel.
  • Locations — contains location symbols. Drag a location onto the layout to show the aggregate status of all objects in that location.
  • Common — contains static graphical elements for layout design.

The number of rows and columns in the layout is determined automatically and shown by counters in the upper left corner. Symbols can be moved between columns, deleted, and renamed. Columns can be reordered by dragging their headers.

To preview the completed layout in view mode, click the preview button symbol in the lower right corner of the screen.

6.4.3 Visualization of State Panels

View mode displays the state panel continuously on a monitor for ongoing monitoring. The state panel can also be embedded in a workspace or layout using the State panel widget (Section 12.2.4).

In view mode, hovering the cursor over any element that has an active alarm opens a detailed alarm information window (Figure 201). The window shows:

  • The parameters of the alarm event as defined in the alarm preset (Section 5.3). To edit the preset, click the edit preset button button.
  • The start time of the alarm event.

Figure 201. Example of an alarm event information window on the state panel Figure 201. Example of an alarm event information window on the state panel

Each state panel element has a local menu, accessed by clicking the element's edit button (shown by the red arrow in Figure 202).

Figure 202. Local menu of an element in viewing mode Figure 202. Local menu of an element in viewing mode

The buttons in the local menu are described in Table 34.

Table 34. Local menu buttons of the state panel element

Button Purpose
Enable or disable monitoring for the object (requires appropriate user rights).
Enable or disable recording for the monitoring object (requires rights and an active recording configuration).
Suppress alarm event indication for a selected duration: 5 minutes; 1, 2, 6, 12, or 24 hours; or permanently . Events continue to be generated and logged.
Acknowledge an alarm event.
Exclude all alarm events for this monitoring object from the Alarms view and State Panel.
Play video for the selected monitoring object in the player. Requires the Video player widget to be placed in the workspace (Section 12.5.1).
Open the layout template for this monitoring object. If multiple templates exist for this object type, a selection menu is displayed.
Enable playback of the decoded signal on the dynamic mosaic and penalty screen for viewing.