Determine if tags or alarm groups are in an alarm 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