February 13, 2023 carriefalzone

Cellular modems for SMS Notification

Cellular modems for SMS Notification Overview TopView provides support for network cellular modems/devices for SMS. Connecting to a cellular network requires a plan with a cellular carrier that supports the chosen cellular modem (GSM/CDMA/HSPA). This plan will give you a SIM card to insert into the cellular modem, giving the device a cellular phone number. [...]

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February 13, 2023 carriefalzone

TopView Tag Groups

TopView Tag Groups Overview Tag Groups allow the user to categorize their tags by optionally assigning each monitored tag to one or more Tag Groups. Once Tag Groups are created and assigned to tags: The interactive TopView Engine window and Remote Viewer will display the Tag Group names for the user to select when viewing [...]

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October 27, 2022 carriefalzone

Mobile & Remote Access

Mobile & Remote Access TopView offers multiple options for remotely accessing TopView and acknowledging alarms: Clients: Remote access using Remote Viewer client for Windows desktop Mobile Web App for mobile devices and browsers Remote Acknowledgement of alarms through Email and SMS Outgoing voice calls TopView clients: Remote Viewer and Mobile Web App Make a phone call [...]

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October 27, 2022 carriefalzone

Alarm RSS Feeds

Alarm RSS Feeds What is RSS? RSS is a method for distributing information updates over the web. An RSS feed is an XML file hosted on a web server. The contents of the XML file are one or more items that describe the information to be distributed. Many common uses of RSS feeds are blog entries, new items, and videos. [...]

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October 27, 2022 carriefalzone

Alarm SNMP Traps

Alarm SNMP Traps The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is the dominant protocol in network management. SNMP Traps are unsolicited alarm messages sent by devices (agents) on the network to an SNMP Manager within an IT monitoring infrastructure. Send process alarms as SNMP Traps TopView can act as an SNMP agent that sends SNMP Trap messages [...]

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October 27, 2022 carriefalzone

Snapshot Output (file/SQL)

Snapshot Output (file/SQL) TopView’s Snapshot Output provides current TopView state information (“Snapshot”) in a format that can be accessed by external applications. This includes all current tag information, values, and alarm details. The Snapshot Output can be a flat file (CSV/JSON) and/or SQL Server table (Snapshot table) For each monitored point, the Snapshot Output contains: [...]

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October 27, 2022 carriefalzone

HTML Snapshot Reports

HTML Snapshot Reports TopView can create multiple, customized reports of current tag values and alarms (“snapshots”) as HTML files. The output can be formatted wide or narrow, with options for special settings for mobile web browsers. Each HTML Snapshot Report can be emailed and published to a web server using FTP. You can also request [...]

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October 27, 2022 carriefalzone

Alarm Reports / Alarm Actions

Alarm Reports / Alarm Actions Alarm Reports: Ad-hoc or Scheduled Alarm Reports are summary reports of the alarms that occurred for one or more monitored points over a user-specified period of time. Each alarm report can filter the included events for specific areas/groups, alarm message content, priority, alarm and acknowledge state. The generation of each [...]

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October 27, 2022 carriefalzone

Alarm Analytics

Alarm Analytics TopView Alarm Analytics provides tools to assist the user in the identification of nuisance or poorly configured alarms, alarm flooding, and time-based alarm activity trends (time of day, shifts, …). TopView Alarm Analytics displays tables and charts of alarm details per monitored point/tag, per interval within a time range, as well as overall [...]

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October 27, 2022 carriefalzone

Alarm History / SQL Server

Alarm History / SQL Server TopView stores all alarm event details (alarm, return to normal, acknowledge) and makes this alarm history available through Ad-hoc and scheduled TopView Alarm Reports. Alarm History and Analytics in the TopView Engine Window and Remote Viewer Alarm History in the Mobile Web App By default, TopView stores alarm history to [...]

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