Alarm Cache File Not Found

[jacob.ramirez]

I have been trying to clear an alarm on a tag that has been deleted but haven’t succeeded yet. I have shut down the gateway and looked for the .alarms file but it’s not in the {InstallDirectory}/data/ folder.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to clear this alarm?

[andrews]

See:

How to Clear Client (.ignition) Cache and Java Cache

and

Ignition, Java & Caching

I was curious … how does Ignition cache files on the client-side? Let me elaborate … when I launch a project from a remote client for the first time, I’ll get a loading screen. At some point in the loading screen, it’ll state Unpacking # of # or something along those lines. If I shut the project down and reopen it, I won’t get Unpacking # of # … I’m assuming the client runs the project (or package or whatever) from a cached file (or files) … is this a true statement? If I wanted to empty my …

[jacob.ramirez]

Since I’m on Ignition 8.1, I don’t have Java installed.

[jacob.ramirez]

Nevermind. The .alarms cache is on the remote server where the alarm originated even though my local gateway sees the alarm because of the remote tag provider.

I logged into the remote server and was able to find the alarm cache file.

[andrews]

@jacob.ramirez All versions of Ignition use/require Java. Well at least Vision wise. Perspective might not on end user side, but would on development side etc…

[jacob.ramirez]

Got ya. That makes sense then, I’m using perspective only.