Simplifying Source Path for Alarms

[lrose]

The discussion here, may be of interest to you.

How does system.alarm.queryJournal() query for "source"?

I haven't been able to find precise details on what the path and source parameters are actually querying against. I want to be exact in my tag alarm queries, because some tag paths are subsets of others (have similar names). So far, I've found the following: "*Path/To/Tag1*" returns multiple alarms (ie. Path/To/Tag1 and Path/To/Tag10 both match the former path) "*Path/To/Tag1:*" avoides this problem because the source always ends with a colon (apparently) "*:Path/To/Tag1*" doesn't return anyt…