NovaStar Program Reference / Alarms and Notification / Overview

Alarm and notification programs provide features to detect alarm conditions, display alarms, and notify contacts about alarm conditions.

• Summary
• Computing
• Triggering
• Alarm Display
• Alerttalk3 (Voice Alerts)
• Notification
• Audio
• Map Display
• Pagers
• Sirens
• Testing
• Utilities - Overdue Report Check

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Summary

TODO smalers 2017-10-12 Need to insert summary of alarm/notification processes.

Computing

• nscomputealarm - TODO smalers 2017-10-12 need to document

Triggering

• nsalarmtrigger - TODO smalers 2017-10-12 need to document

Alarm Display

Alarm display programs display alarm data in NovaStar software and hardware.

• alarmdisp - TODO smalers 2017-10-12 need to document

Alerttalk3 (Voice Alerts)

• nsadas3alarm - TODO smalers 2017-10-12 need to document
• nsadas3update - TODO smalers 2017-10-12 need to document
• nsalerttalk3 - TODO smalers 2017-10-12 need to document

Notification

• dial - TODO smalers 2017-10-12 need to document
• nsalarmemail - send alarm messages by email
• nsalarmsenable - display/set whether alarms are enabled TODO smalers 2017-10-13 figure out whether it means alarms or notification
• nsemailserver - set the NovaStar email server

Audio

Audio alarms are heard at the NovaStar basestation computer.

• nsbeep - TODO smalers 2017-10-12 need to document
• nsconsolebeep - TODO smalers 2017-10-12 need to document

Map Display

• nslampflash - map display lamp flash alarm action
• nslampon - map display lamp on alarm action

Pagers

• nspageranalog - send alarm messages by analog dialout pager
• nspageranalogdial - send alarm messages by analog dialout pager service
• nspagerdigital - send alarm messages by digital dialout pager
• nspagertapsdial - send alarm messages by taps dialout pager service
• pager_chksum - compute TAPS pager checksum

Sirens

Sirens are field hardware that emits a siren.

• nsatisiren - TODO smalers 2017-10-12 need to document
• nsatisirentrigger - TODO smalers 2017-10-12 need to document
• see the nsnetcat program - used for sirens in the Jordan system
• nssiren - TODO smalers 2017-11-29 need to document

Testing

• nsalarmtest - TODO smalers 2017-10-12 need to document

Utilities - Overdue Report Check

• see Data Collection Overdue Report Check