Separate permissions for Disable Alarms and Disable Alarm Reporting

[rlao]

Currently, the permission to disable alarm reporting and stop updates on SCADA is tied to the 'Disable Alarms' permission.

On our Geo SCADA systems, our operators require the ability to disable alarms which means they also have access to disable alarm reporting as well. I can safely say that 99% of disable alarm reporting actions by our operators are accidental as those two options are right next to each other on the context menu and are worded very similarly. These generally do not get caught for days and during that period, we have no monitoring and get no historic data backfill when that setting is re-enabled. On the occasions where alarm reporting does need to be disabled, it is generally handled by the engineers not the operators.

The disable alarms and disable alarm reporting actions are quite different and hence can fall under different jurisdictions, so I would like to make a feature request to split their permissions up. For us personally, it would help eliminate a lot of these accidents.

[sbeadle]

Thank you