Exporting alarm and event history

You can initiate a one-time export task of alarm history data or schedule periodic exports from the Alarms and Events > View History page. If filtering has been applied in the View History page, only filtered data is exported.

For each export task, the system automatically creates a CSV file of the filtered data. The file is available in the file management area until you manually delete it, or until the file is transferred to an alternate location using the remote server data export feature. For more information about using remote server data export, see Remote Servers.

Use this procedure to export alarm and event history to a file, or schedule a periodic data export task of this data.

1. Click Alarms & Events > View History.
2. Specify the desired filter criteria and click Go. The Collection Interval is required.
   The alarm and event history files are displayed according to the specified criteria.
3. Click Export.
4. Select the Export Frequency. Based on this selection, other fields may become active or inactive.
5. Enter a Task Name.
   This field is not active if the selected export frequency is once. For more information about Task Name, or any field on this page, see Historical events data export elements.
6. Optional: Enter a Description.
   This field is not active if the selected export frequency is once.
7. Optional: Enter a Filename Prefix.
   The filename prefix is pre-pended to the generated export file name for quick identification.
8. Select the Minute if Export Frequency is fifteen minutes or hourly.
   If the selected export frequency is fifteen minutes or hourly, this is the minute of each period when the transfer is set to begin. For an export frequency of fifteen minutes, transfers occur four times per hour, and this field displays the minute of the first transfer.
9. Select the Time of Day if Export Frequency is daily or weekly.
   This field is not active if the selected export frequency is once, fifteen minutes, or hourly.
10. Select the Day of Week if Export Frequency is weekly.
    This field is not active if the selected export frequency is once, fifteen minutes, hourly, or daily.
11. Click OK to initiate the export task or Cancel to discard the changes and return to the View History page.

The data export task is initiated or scheduled.

From the Status & Manage > Files page, you can view a list of files available for download, including the file you exported during this procedure. For more information, see Viewing the file list.

Scheduled tasks can be viewed, edited, and deleted, and reports of scheduled tasks can be generated from Status & Manage > Tasks > Scheduled Tasks. For more information see:

• Editing a scheduled task
• Deleting a scheduled task
• Generating a scheduled task report

Note:

Only one export operation at a time is supported on a single server. If an export is in progress from another GUI session when you click Export, a message is displayed and the export does not start. You must wait until the other export is complete before you can begin your export.