# Managing Past Alarms

The past alarms include all cleared alarms. You can export one, more, or all past alarms.

#### Procedure

1. Choose Alarms > Alarm Management > Past Alarms.
2. Managing past alarms includes the following operations:

   - Export

     Export some important alarms in a file, helping the administrator to locate and analyze problems.

     If the Internet Explorer executes the default security policy, the To help protect you security, Internet Explorer blocked this site from downloading file from to your computer message is displayed upon an export operation. In this case, right-click the message, and choose Download File from the shortcut menu. After the interface is refreshed, export the event information again.

     1. Select one or more alarms.
     2. Click .

        The File Download dialog box is displayed.

     3. Click Save.

        The Save As dialog box is displayed.

     4. Select a path for saving the alarm file, enter a name for the file or use the default file name, and click Save.

        The selected alarms are exported to the specified local path.

   - Export all

     Export all the past alarms in a file, helping the administrator to locate and analyze problems.

     1. Click .

        The File Download dialog box is displayed.

     2. Click Save.

        The Save As dialog box is displayed.

     3. Select a path for saving the alarm file, enter a name for the file or use the default file name, and click Save.

        All the past alarms are exported to the specified local path.

   - Search
     Set the conditions to search for the desired alarms. The search method can be the basic search or advanced search.
     - When you select Search, you can search for alarms by alarm severity.
     - When you select Advanced Search, you can search for alarms by alarm severity, confirmation status, alarm source, and alarm occurrence time.

       You can click Reset to clear all the specified parameter values.

   - View
     - You can click the name of an alarm to view its details.
       1. Click the name of an alarm.

          The page showing the details about the alarm is displayed.

       2. View the basic information and modification suggestions of the alarm.
     - You can click the times of an alarm to view the occurrence time, confirmation status and time, clearance status and time, and notification type of the alarm.

Parent topic: Managing Alarms

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