Follow up: I had a couple revelations. 1) I did not switch the Acknowledgement method of my alarm class to ACK. 2) After changing the Acknowledgement method, I was able to trigger and clear "active" alarms using the RaiseEvent and AcknowledgeOneOfGroup methods respectively. After playing around with the Event Observation Type I decided to return to the Digital Observation Type. The primary reason was that after scaling the alarms from what I was testing with to something more large and realistic,...
I'm putting together the alarm handling for a project I'm working on. When completed this will monitor a system with >1000 errors potentially reported. The criteria to trigger an alarm can come from multiple sources. Initially I started by creating an AlarmGroup with entries using Digital Observation Types. Even though I was mass manipulating the content and importing it, the group gets larger than I'd like because there needs to be an entry for each potential trigger of each Alarm. Looking around...