Syntax of alarm queries

InTouch alarm queries subscribe to alarm and event information from objects within a Galaxy. The alarm and event queries can be in the form of user input or a script.

Alarm query syntax must be in one of the following forms:

\Provider!Area

or

\\Node\Provider!Area

You can have one or more references in a query separated by spaces.

You can also optionally append a tagname filter at the end, separated by another exclamation mark:

\Provider!Area!Filter

\\Node\Provider!Area!Filter

The filter can have a wildcard * character at the beginning or at the end, but not both.

The \\Node at the beginning is only important if you want to query for alarms from a provider on another computer. Otherwise, you can leave it off and the reference is assumed to be a provider on the local computer. The provider name Galaxy refers to alarms and events that get reported by the WinPlatform configured as an InTouch alarm provider on that computer node.