Settings - Alarm - General

Show a dialog box when an alarm goes off

Checking this option will show an alarm message for any sensor which passes it's alarm values. This option is also needed to execute SHDN, Wavs and E-mail. If you don't check this option then the mentioned option will not work

Alarm frequency

Determine the frequency of the alarm, press the speaker button to test it

Write all alarm messages to a log file (even if you disable the alarm dialog, these messages will be written each time there is an alarm breach)

If you check this box you enable the option to write alarm messages to a log. Which log you determine in the following 4 options

.TXT

Will write the log to a .TXT file, the buttons behind it will open the log or delete it.

.CSV

Will write the log to a .CSV file, the buttons behind it will open the log or delete it

.HTML

Will write the log to a .HTML file, the buttons behind it will open the log or delete it

.XML

Will write the log to a .XML file, the buttons behind it will open the log or delete it

NT Event Viewer

If you have Windows NT or 2000 then the messages will be written in the Event Viewer

Location for the alarm log files

Here you can select a location for the log files to be written to

Alarm Log Name

Here you can set the filename for the log files that hold the alarm messages, MBM will add the extension needed

Maximum entries in the alarm log (once this value is reached, the program will delete the oldest entry to add a new one)

Here you state the max number of entries you want to have in the log file, the higher the number the more work MBM will have, but below 100 you should be okay. If the max number is reached then the oldest entry will be removed so a new one can be added. In XML logs this changes a little bit, instead of entries limited to X it's the date's that are limited to X, so you can have as many entries as you want per date but it will only allow as many dates in it as you specify here.

XSL entry in XML files (leave blank to have no entry)

Here you have the option to add a XSL entry into the XML file.

XSL is a way of transforming XML into something else, like HTML. You can write an XSL file (which is in XML), and basically pick data parts from the original XML file and place them where-ever you want to in an HTML file. To use XSL you need an XSL processor, luckily IE5+ and Netscape 6+ have them built in.

a valid entry would be: <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="myselectfile.xsl"?>

To learn about XSL and XML check out: Introduction to XSLT - Web Building - CNET.com

CSS entry in HTML files (leave blank to have no entry)

Here you have the option to add a CSS entry into the HTML file.

CSS is the same XSL (above) but less powerfull, and for HTML files only

a valid entry would be: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="myselectedstylesheet.css">