Determining if Tags or Alarm Groups are in anAlarm Condition

Use the following dotfields and a system tag to determine the status of alarms in a running application. You can find out if a new alarm occurred or whether a tag or alarm group is in alarm or is the normal state. You can also find out the status of discrete, deviation, and rate-of-change alarms.

• $NewAlarm System Tag

• $System System Tag

• .Alarm Dotfield

• .Normal Dotfield

• .AlarmDsc Dotfield

• .AlarmDev Dotfield

• .AlarmROC Dotfield

• .LoStatus Dotfield

• .LoLoStatus Dotfield

• .HiStatus Dotfield

• .HiHiStatus Dotfield

• .MinorDevStatus Dotfield

• .MajorDevStatus Dotfield

• .ROCStatus Dotfield