# All Alarms Active, Conditions Not Met

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/all-alarms-active-conditions-not-met/57433>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** vision\
**Created:** [March 21, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/all-alarms-active-conditions-not-met/57433 "2022-03-21T20:38:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![amarks](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/amarks/32/45610_2.png) [@amarks](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/amarks)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/all-alarms-active-conditions-not-met/57433/1 "2022-03-21T20:38:27Z")

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Having an issue with my alarm configurations. I have 2 UDTs with alarms configured on a couple of the members. I have 16 instances of a valve UDT with a fail to open and a fail to close alarm, and 8 instances of a different valve UDT with a fail to open alarm (40 alarms total between the 24 UDT instances). All 3 of the alarm configurations are the same:

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All 40 of the fail to open/close alarms are active, despite all of the fail to open/close tags being false.  
Why are they active?

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**Author:** ![kcollins](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kcollins/32/19646_2.png) [@kcollins](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kcollins)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/all-alarms-active-conditions-not-met/57433/2 "2022-03-21T20:59:51Z")

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Take a look at the docs on _Alarm Mode Settings_ here: [Tag Alarm Properties - Ignition User Manual 8.1 - Ignition Documentation](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Tag+Alarm+Properties#TagAlarmProperties-ReferenceTable)

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You’ll need to bind the _Is Active_ property to an expression/tag to really utilize this mode.

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**Author:** ![amarks](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/amarks/32/45610_2.png) [@amarks](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/amarks)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/all-alarms-active-conditions-not-met/57433/3 "2022-03-21T21:11:57Z")

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I feel like this would be a fairly standard implementation of an alarm. A simple boolean tag from the PLC with a configured alarm. Am I using the wrong mode? The alarm is already configured to the tag, do I really have to bind the Is Active condition back to the tag?

Edit:  
Messing around with the other options, I tried “Equal” with 1 being the Setpoint and got the functionality I was looking for.

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**Author:** ![kcollins](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kcollins/32/19646_2.png) [@kcollins](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kcollins)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/all-alarms-active-conditions-not-met/57433/4 "2022-03-21T21:14:36Z")

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If this alarm is already applied to the tag of interest, use the _Equal_ mode with a _Setpoint_ of `1` for a more direct solution.

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**Author:** ![amarks](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/amarks/32/45610_2.png) [@amarks](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/amarks)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2022, 9:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/all-alarms-active-conditions-not-met/57433/5 "2022-03-21T21:15:01Z")

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Thanks. Wasn’t sure if 1 and True would be equal, since I’ve had issues with that conversion in expressions before.