# User Alarm Settings

## User Alarms

Name: A descriptive name for the alarm, this will appear in emails and the diagnostic log.
- The name shoud be unique and short.

Web Tag: Enter a single valid numeric or boolean web tag to be tested.
- If the tag is a decimal value and your locale uses comma decimals, you must use the rc=y web tag option.
- You can use boolean web tags, they are treated as numeric values 0 (false) or 1 (true).

Type: Determines if the alarm is triggered if the web tag value is above or below the alarm value.

Value: The alarm threshold value to be tested against the web tag value.

Email: Controls if the alarm sends an email when triggered. The email values from the standard alarms are used.

Email Msg: Text to send in the email, you can use the parameter {0} to represent the current web tag value.

Latch: Controls if the alarm is latched. If latched, the alarm will not be triggered again until the latch hours expire.

Latch Hours: The number of hours the alarm is latched for.

Action: If non-blank, a program or script that is executed when the alarm is triggered.

Action Params: Parameters to be passed to the action program or script, the parameters can contain web tags.

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