Blue Pillar IIoT Platform 2022.10.27

Release Date: October 28, 2022

A mechanism has been implemented to prevent orphaned alarms in ViewIT. Orphaned alarms occur when a specific tag, currently in the alarm state, is deleted in the Blue Pillar's ManageIT application. This would cause the alarm to disappear from the Equipment UI in ViewIT, but the Site pin would remain red on the main map page. This new feature checks for alarms upon a tag deletion request in Blue Pillar's ManageIT application. If any alarms are found then the AlarmHistory database is supplied with a ‘cleared’ time stamp of the current time. This causes the Site pin to revert to green if no other alarms are present on the Site.

Things to note about this feature: The ViewIT cache must be cleared manually in order to have the Site pin revert to green immediately. Otherwise, it will revert when the cache is cleared automatically within a 24-hour period. Any Users set up to receive email alerts for alarms on the affected Site will NOT receive an ‘alarm cleared’ notification, as the tag will have been deleted. There will be no entry in the Alarm History table on the ALARM tab in ViewIT, as the tag will have been deleted.

The installed software version number has been added to the ViewIT ‘Settings’ dropdown menu. This was done strictly for informational purposes and to help us verify that the proper version has been deployed.
Version logging has been added to the AlarmProcessor function app for informational purposes.

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