# Alarm Script Hello World

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-script-hello-world/12554>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [January 12, 2017, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-script-hello-world/12554 "2017-01-12T15:13:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![adolfo.rafael.martin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac8455/32.png) [@adolfo.rafael.martin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/adolfo.rafael.martin)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-script-hello-world/12554/1 "2017-01-12T15:13:46Z")

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Hi;

I’d like to prove that the script bound to the Alarm Active Event of a tag gets executed.

What is the best way to create a “Hello World!”-like script to do this?

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**Author:** ![MMaynard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mmaynard/32/3366_2.png) [@MMaynard](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/MMaynard)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/alarm-script-hello-world/12554/2 "2017-01-12T15:40:07Z")

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Create a memory string tag and then in the action script write the current system timestamp to it?  
Then just watch for the alarm to come active and check the value of the memory string tag.