# Defined alarms in the system **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [September 15, 2020, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/defined-alarms-in-the-system/38696 "2020-09-15T15:52:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![latifa.rhandour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85e7bf/32.png) [@latifa.rhandour](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/latifa.rhandour)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/defined-alarms-in-the-system/38696/1 "2020-09-15T15:52:24Z")
Hi, Is there a way to get the list of all the configured alarms in the system? The idea is to display in a table the list of defined alarms (with their label) so that users can see all configured alarms. Thanks in advance for your answers! Latifa ---
**Author:** ![code\_skin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@code\_skin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/code_skin)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/defined-alarms-in-the-system/38696/2 "2020-09-15T15:59:21Z")
Hi @latifa.rhandour, this post has a way for obtaining tags with alarms. > [@List of alarm tags](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/list-of-alarm-tags/9607/2): > > Perhaps you could use the [system.alarm.queryStatus()](https://support.inductiveautomation.com/usermanuals/ignition/index.html?system_alarm_querystatus.htm) function and use a wild card to get all the alarms. Best, Then you could built your dataset with this for displaying in a table. Edit: [system.alarm.queryStatus - Ignition User Manual 8.0 - Ignition Documentation](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC80/system.alarm.queryStatus) ---
**Author:** ![latifa.rhandour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85e7bf/32.png) [@latifa.rhandour](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/latifa.rhandour)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 11:32am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/defined-alarms-in-the-system/38696/3 "2020-09-16T11:32:35Z")
Hi @code_skin , thanks for your answer! I thought about using system.alarm.queryStatus() but I’m not sure i can get all configured alarms with this. I think i can only get activeUnacked, activeAcked, clearUnacked, clearAcked … So if an alarm never went active it won’t appear in the dataset ---
**Author:** ![code\_skin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@code\_skin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/code_skin)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/defined-alarms-in-the-system/38696/4 "2020-09-16T12:24:54Z")
> [@latifa.rhandour](#): > > but I’m not sure i can get all configured alarms with this. I use this function often to get all the alarm tags defined in the system. Try this to see if you can work with it: - Create a new window, - drag a button and a power table on the window - paste the below in the buttons actionPerformed ```auto alarmTags = system.alarm.queryStatus(source=["*"]) event.source.parent.getComponent('Power Table').data = alarmTags.getDataset() ``` This will return a full list of all tags that have alarms configured regardless of the alarm state. From the manual: `Queries the current state of alarms.` ---
**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/defined-alarms-in-the-system/38696/5 "2020-09-16T12:55:56Z")
> [@Best way to generate an alarm list](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/best-way-to-generate-an-alarm-list/11773/4): > > Sorry all… but, I’ve tried to use the queryStatus above to get a list of all alarms, however I only get 27 alarms returned, where there should be hundreds. I ran this in two locations: my local dev environment, no connection to PLCs where I got the 27 alarms; I also ran it on the production gateway where it returned a large number of alarms. I’m now not confident the “full” alarm list that I gave the customer using this function is in fact a full list at all… Why would these results be differen… I found that using statusquery didn't get a full list. I don't think I ever was able to get a full list... Or maybe I had to use system.tag.browse for it or the other config one? ---
**Author:** ![ali.khalil](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ali.khalil/32/18169_2.png) [@ali.khalil](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ali.khalil)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2020, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/defined-alarms-in-the-system/38696/6 "2020-09-16T13:01:24Z")
Hi Latifa, I think you can achieve your requirement by combining: - [system.tag.browseTags](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/system.tag.browseTags) - [system.tag.getAlarmStates](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC79/system.tag.getAlarmStates) In this example I am writing the results to a Dataset type tag, of course you can get more information / props if you need. ```auto # This function was designed to run from a Gateway Scoped call. Client based calls (such as those triggered by a button press) should search in an asynchronous thread. # Define the search as a function. This makes recursion easier. def manualSearch(initPath): # If troubleshooting, you could print out the initPath here # Create a result set of just tags. This call could be modified to look for a specific sub of tags, # such as just UDT instances tagSet = system.tag.browseTags(parentPath = initPath, tagPath = '*', recursive=False) # Create a result set of just folders. We'll iterate over this set and call browseTags() again for the results. folderSet = system.tag.browseTags(parentPath = initPath, tagPath = '*', tagType = 'Folder', recursive=False) # Iterate through our folders... for folder in folderSet: # If troubleshooting, you also could print out folder.path here. # ...And start the process over again until we run out of folders. tagSet+=manualSearch(folder.fullPath) # Return the list of tags. return tagSet # Call this on the manual tag provider. Change the intialPath here if searching through a specific Tag Provider. myTags = manualSearch("[Sample_Tags]") idx=0 headers=["ID","Alarm"] data=[] for myTag in myTags: try: tagDefs = system.tag.getAlarmStates(str(myTag)) for tagDef in tagDefs: idx=idx+1 AlmDef= tagDef.alarm data.append([idx,AlmDef]) except: pass print idx AlmSet = system.dataset.toDataSet(headers, data) system.tag.write("[Sample_Tags]AlmDefs",AlmSet) ``` ---
**Author:** ![latifa.rhandour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85e7bf/32.png) [@latifa.rhandour](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/latifa.rhandour)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 9:07am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/defined-alarms-in-the-system/38696/7 "2020-09-22T09:07:35Z")
That worked perfectly! Thanks a lot!