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AlarmFirstCatRec

Searches for the first occurrence of an alarm category and type. You can search all areas, the current area only, or specify an area to limit the search. If calling this function from a remote client, use the MsgRPC() function.

This function returns an alarm record identifier that you can use in other alarm functions, for example, to acknowledge, disable, or enable the alarm, or to get field data on that alarm.

Note: Record numbers obtained from AlarmGetDsp are not valid for this function.

When the Alarm Server is not in the calling process, this function will become blocking and cannot be called from a foreground task. In this case, the return value will be undefined and a Cicode hardware alarm will be raised.

Syntax

AlarmFirstCatRec(Category, Type [, Area] [, ClusterName] )

Category:

The alarm category or group number to match. Set Category to 0 (zero) to match all alarm categories.

Type:

The type of alarms to find:

Non-hardware alarms

0 - All active alarms, that is Types 1 and 2.

1 - All unacknowledged alarms, ON and OFF.

2 - All acknowledged ON alarms.

3 - All disabled alarms.

4 - All configured alarms, that is, types 0 to 3, plus acknowledged OFF alarms. If you do not specify a type, the default is 0.

Area:

The area in which to search for alarms. If you do not specify an area, or if you set Area to -1, only the current area will be searched.

ClusterName:

Specifies the name of the cluster in which the Alarm Server resides. This is optional if you have one cluster or are resolving the alarm server via the current cluster context. The argument is enclosed in quotation marks "".

Return Value

The alarm record identifier or -1 if no match is found.

Related Functions

GrpOpen, AlarmNextCatRec, AlarmFirstPriRec, AlarmNextPriRec, AlarmGetFieldRec, AlarmAckRec, AlarmDisableRec, AlarmEnableRec, AlarmGetThresholdRec, AlarmSetThresholdRec, MsgRPC

Example

See AlarmAckRec

See Also

Alarm Functions