# Disable/enable Alarm in v8

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-enable-alarm-in-v8/33035>\
**Category:** Ignition Early Access\
**Created:** [March 12, 2020, 9:27am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-enable-alarm-in-v8/33035 "2020-03-12T09:27:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![witman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d2c977/32.png) [@witman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/witman)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disable-enable-alarm-in-v8/33035/6 "2020-03-12T17:46:44Z")

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> [@Overriding Properties in UDT Instances by system.tag.writeAsync()](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/overriding-properties-in-udt-instances-by-system-tag-writeasync/32516/24):
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> Would this work for you? def overrideAlarmConfig(tagPath, alarmName, alarmProperty, value): config = system.tag.getConfiguration(tagPath)[0] for alarm in config['alarms']: if alarm['name'] == alarmName: alarm[alarmProperty] = value break basePath = tagPath.rsplit('/',1)[0] system.tag.configure(basePath, config, 'm') overrideAlarmConfig("[default]PT2323/PV", "Hi", "enabled", True)

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