Migrate from the standard alarm system to the distributed alarm system

When you migrate a Standard Alarm system to the Distributed Alarm system, all of the Standard Alarm Displays in the master/slave application are migrated to Distributed Alarm Display objects.

Colors, fonts, the expressions, and the alarm query settings are not migrated. The new Distributed Alarm Display object has the following default query, where node name is the name of the master node:

\\nodename\InTouch!$system

The acknowledgement and alarm status dotfields continue to work as before. Depending if the I/O tag was configured for NetDDE or SuiteLink, you may need to enable NetDDE. However, you may decide you no longer need separate controls for issuing acknowledgements, as the alarms can now be acknowledged using the Distributed Alarm Display object.