# Disabling an alarm while system inactive

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabling-an-alarm-while-system-inactive/95433>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [September 2, 2024, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabling-an-alarm-while-system-inactive/95433 "2024-09-02T13:46:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Reed\_Byford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c67d28/32.png) [@Reed\_Byford](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Reed_Byford)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabling-an-alarm-while-system-inactive/95433/1 "2024-09-02T13:46:16Z")

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We have several different chillers, all with their own respective transmitters, etc. However, we are not always running them all simultaneously.

The problem is, whenever one chiller system is turned off, we still get the alarms (Low temp, stale data, etc.) for that chiller. How can I set the alarms up where they are only active whenever it's respective system is actively running?

I am still very new to Ignition so thanks for any help!

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**Author:** ![michael.flagler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/michael.flagler/32/26272_2.png) [@michael.flagler](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/michael.flagler)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabling-an-alarm-while-system-inactive/95433/2 "2024-09-02T15:24:15Z")

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When configuring your alarms, there is an enabled property for each alarm which you can bind to an expression or a tag to dynamically enable/disable the alarm when necessary.

Related manual page: [https://www.docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/platform/tags/tag-properties/tag-alarm-properties](https://www.docs.inductiveautomation.com/docs/8.1/platform/tags/tag-properties/tag-alarm-properties)

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**Author:** ![Reed\_Byford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c67d28/32.png) [@Reed\_Byford](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Reed_Byford)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 8:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/disabling-an-alarm-while-system-inactive/95433/3 "2024-09-02T20:07:05Z")

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Was able to get it working. Thanks for the help!