Ignition Alarm Pipeline Orchestrator

Plan, troubleshoot, and explain Ignition 8.1 alarm notification pipelines with an offline assistant built for real SCADA alarm-management work. This listing focuses on alarm route design, escalation behavior, shelving, acknowledgement behavior, nuisance alarm routing, rosters, schedules, notification profiles, and current-status versus journal/audit correlation.

Tested with Ignition 8.1.53.

Built from 10+ years of manufacturing and industrial automation experience across food packaging, planter-part manufacturing, and Tier 1 automotive environments, including practical Ignition use in production-facing work.

What It Helps With

• Review alarm notification pipelines, escalation paths, delay blocks, dropout behavior, loops, and branch logic from screenshots, exports, and pasted configuration.
• Diagnose why an alarm did or did not notify a user, roster, schedule, profile, SMS/email/voice channel, or supervisor escalation path.
• Separate current alarm status, journal rows, audit rows, Gateway logs, notification-provider captures, and operator notes instead of blending them into one unreliable timeline.
• Explain how active, clear, acknowledged, unacknowledged, and shelved states affect notification behavior.
• Produce operator-safe next steps for an authorized Ignition administrator to validate in a lab, staging Gateway, or planned maintenance window.

Example Prompt

Use ignition-alarm-pipeline-orchestrator to review this offline alarm notification evidence. Incident window: 2026-06-18 14:02-14:35 CDT. Production impact: the high-priority filler fault alarm was active, but second-shift maintenance says nobody received the escalation text.

Gateway: Ignition 8.1.53, America/Chicago timezone
Alarm source: [default]Packaging/Filler01/Fault
Display path: Packaging/Filler 01 Fault
Priority: High
Pipeline assignment: Filler_Escalation
Pipeline blocks: Start -> Delay 5 minutes -> Roster Notification: MaintShift2 -> Delay 10 minutes -> Roster Notification: MaintSupervisor -> End
Current status export at 14:20: eventId=0f84..., state=ActiveUnacked, shelved=false
Journal rows: Active at 14:03:11, no Ack row before 14:35, Clear at 14:41:02
Roster screenshot: MaintShift2 contains j.smith and m.lee
Schedule screenshot: j.smith off shift at 14:03; m.lee on shift at 14:03
User source screenshot: m.lee has email only; no SMS/contact number shown
Notification provider capture: no SMS message with eventId=0f84... during 14:02-14:35

Example Output

Offline Alarm Notification Review

Route View

Packaging/Filler 01 Fault -> Filler_Escalation -> Start -> 5 minute delay -> MaintShift2 roster notification -> 10 minute delay -> MaintSupervisor roster notification -> End.

Timing Line

Alarm went Active at 14:03:11 CDT. First roster notification should have been evaluated around 14:08:11. Supervisor escalation should have been evaluated around 14:18:11. At 14:20, the event was still ActiveUnacked, not shelved, with no Ack before 14:35.

Recipient Matrix

j.smith was in MaintShift2 but off shift at alarm start, so likely not eligible. m.lee was on shift and likely eligible for the second-shift roster, but the user source shows email only and no SMS/contact number. No SMS provider record was found for event 0f84... during the incident window.

Diagnosis

The strongest offline finding is a roster/contact configuration gap, not evidence of alarm inactivity. The high-priority alarm was active and unacknowledged long enough to enter the escalation pipeline, but the only on-shift second-shift recipient appears to lack an SMS-capable contact method. That explains why maintenance may have received no escalation text.

Risk

A high-priority filler fault remained active and unacknowledged for over 30 minutes during production, with no confirmed SMS delivery path for the assigned shift recipient. This creates repeat exposure for missed critical alarms.

Recommended Next Steps

Add and verify SMS contact data for m.lee; confirm roster schedule filtering for MaintShift2; run a controlled test alarm through Filler_Escalation; verify notification profile/provider routing; confirm MaintSupervisor roster members and SMS contacts; document the expected delivery path for high-priority filler faults.

Missing Evidence

Live Gateway pipeline execution trace, notification block audit details, SMS profile/provider configuration, MaintSupervisor roster/contact screenshots, and Gateway logs around 14:08-14:20.

This is offline evidence analysis based on provided screenshots and exports, not live Ignition Gateway validation.

Offline Capafy Edition

This Capafy edition works from user-provided evidence such as screenshots, pipeline block descriptions, alarm status exports, journal rows, audit rows, Gateway log excerpts, roster and schedule screenshots, notification provider captures, and described behavior. It does not require live Gateway access and does not manipulate a running Gateway.

Live Gateway reads, writes, notification sends, profile edits, alarm shelving, acknowledgement actions, or real-time Gateway control are outside this download edition and require a separate connection and authorization path.

Suggested Tags

Ignition 8.1, Alarm Pipelines, Rosters, SCADA, Automation

Support

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