# Online Window/Channel Status

When Alarmware is connected to a Catalyst, the Online Status window is displayed. This window is a "live" representation of the Front Panel LEDs as they are actually appearing on the Catalyst Front Panel.

To view an individual channel status click on the channel number or range of channel numbers that includes the channel you are interested in viewing. When selecting a range of numbers, a Status Explore window will pop up that will allow you to select the individual channel you want to view.

At this point, a Channel Status dialog box will appear that displays the following information:

- Channel Number -- Current channel being viewed
- Channel State -- States include Normal, Alarm, Acknowledged Alarm, Now Normal, or Now Normal, Acknowledged, Communications Failure, and High or Low Setpoint violations. Tag Words reflecting these channel states are automatically added to messages in both voice and text reports. You can replace the default state tag words with your own more descriptive voice and text Tag Words. For text Tag Words, go to Messages and click on Tag words. If a state tag is too long to fit in the fixed width state box, you can scroll horizontally within the text box. For voice mode Tag Words, refer to the process for recording your own Tag Words.
- Channel Value Direct Reading -- The value that represents the current transformed value in the reporting format configured for the channel in Configuration | Channel Settings.
- Channel Raw Value -- The value that represents the current raw (not transformed) data associated with the channel.
- Error Count -- The number of errors counted since last reset.
- Last Error -- Description of the last error encountered. See PLC Related Errors
- Data/Time -- The date and time of the last error encountered.
- Configuration Button – If you need to make any channel configuration changes, click on this button and the channel settings dialog box will appear.
- Write New Value Button – If you want to write a value back to the channel, click on this button and the Write New Value dialog box will appear. Enter value and click OK.
- Force New Scan Button – If you want to get the most current value at the channel input, click this button and the channel value will be immediately updated.
- Reset Channel Value – This action causes the channel value to be reset, without writing any data back to the SNA.

The Online window also contains 4 button controls:

1. Arm/Disarm -- Click on this button to either Arm or Disarm the connected RTU. This button acts like a toggle switch to change the state of the RTU.
2. Acknowledge Alarms -- Click on this button to acknowledge all active alarms.
3. Disconnect RTU-- Click on this button to disconnect from the currently connected RTU.
4. External Net Address -- Click on this button to launch the External Net Address dialog box.