# Shelved Alarms Keep Alarming When Re-triggered

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/shelved-alarms-keep-alarming-when-re-triggered/52140>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [October 20, 2021, 2:41am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/shelved-alarms-keep-alarming-when-re-triggered/52140 "2021-10-20T02:41:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![oliver.jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a698b9/32.png) [@oliver.jones](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/oliver.jones)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2021, 2:41am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/shelved-alarms-keep-alarming-when-re-triggered/52140/1 "2021-10-20T02:41:07Z")

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Hi, I am having a strange problem where a customer using Ignition 8.1.7 shelves nuisance alarms which send out SMS notifications, but as these nuisance alarms re-trigger (become inactive, then active again), to everyone’s annoyance they still alarm and send out SMS messages, and yes they show up in the “Shelved” alarms list as well.

Has anyone else had this problem before?

I have tried this with the same tags on my test machine and not been able to repeat the problem. (on my test machine, as desired, shelved alarms do not alarm when retriggered).

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**Author:** ![Douglas\_Lawrie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Douglas\_Lawrie](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Douglas_Lawrie)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2022, 2:07am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/shelved-alarms-keep-alarming-when-re-triggered/52140/2 "2022-09-06T02:07:11Z")

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Having exactly this problem. Shelved alarms do not prevent repeat instances of the alarm showing up in the alarm status table and all the interactions associated with that.

Using Ignition 8.1.20, perspective workstation 8.1.1x

Edit: Alarms fail to shelve from a client connected to a gateway with a remote tag provider from another gateway i.e.  
[Gateway with alarm] --\> [Gateway with remote tag provider] --\> [Perspective Client with alarm status table]

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**Author:** ![Ingo\_Beyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ea666f/32.png) [@Ingo\_Beyer](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Ingo_Beyer)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2023, 9:23am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/shelved-alarms-keep-alarming-when-re-triggered/52140/3 "2023-02-20T09:23:36Z")

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same here, was there a fix?  
Ignition 8.1.24

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**Author:** ![Douglas\_Lawrie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Douglas\_Lawrie](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Douglas_Lawrie)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 4:47am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/shelved-alarms-keep-alarming-when-re-triggered/52140/4 "2023-09-23T04:47:31Z")

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I believe this is a known bug. My org has implemented a workaround.

> [@Supress repeat instances of shelved alarm](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/supress-repeat-instances-of-shelved-alarm/63754/3):
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> Our alarm status table seems to be showing repeat instances of shelved alarms. I.e. there is an entry in the Shelved tab, and multiple occurrences in the Active tab (see screenshots).