alarm_monitor

alarm_monitor is a program for monitoring Foxboro I/A Process Alarms

alarm_monitor is a set of Perl and shell scripts to monitor Foxboro I/A Process Alarms. It parses the almhist file and sends emails when it finds an alarm that matches an entry in its config file. I have succesfully Windows workstation with version 8.x. It should also work on Unix v.7 as long as some of the paths are modified.

Installation

Clone the repo from GitHub:

git clone git://github.com/CassandraProject/alarm_monitor.git

If you didn't use git on an AW, then you will need to transfer the directory to a Foxboro AW

Configuration

The paths are pre-configured assuming you will run the program from /opt/customer/scripts/alarm_monitor, if not, you will need to change things

Edit the match_alarms.conf file and add the alarms you wish to monitor

Edit the mail_alarm.pl file and add the correct $email{from} address Also the mail script is setup to use mailhost as the SMTP server, this will need to be changed if that is not already setup in your host file

Command line and Scheduled Operation

The program should be run via the run_alarm_monitor.sh control script as that makes sure only one copy will run at any one time. This is the script that needs to be setup to run via the Windows Scheduler.

A lock file is created, it would be a good idea to add a line to the I/A startup routine to delete that lockfile in case the machine shuts down while the script is running. The lockfile is alarm_monitor.lock

Contributing

Contributions to alarm_monitor are welcome. There are a few areas where I know impovements are needed:

• add a deadband parameter to the alarm config so that very frequent alarms won't potentially send many emails

• add other communication options besides email such as SMS, probably via Google Voice which would be a free provider

Thanks

The following people have contributed patches to alarm_monitor - thanks!

• Jeremy Milum