The Alarm History Report displays historical alarm information.
To view the alarm history report:
- From the System Wide Reports section of the navigation pane, select Alarms.
The Alarms section expands to show the available alarm reports.
- Select Alarm History Report.
The Alarm History report opens.
Note: If you are using Internet Explorer, the window appears behind the main window.
The window displays up to 50,000 alarms, sorted by age.
Note: If you wish to view the most recent alarms, and there are more than 50,000 alarms in the database, specify a start date/time that includes the present.
- To view older alarms, reduce the number of alarms displayed, or locate a specific alarm or group of alarms, you can define filtering criteria using the following fields:
- Start Date
Filter out alerts before a specific date/time. Click the calendar icon to specify a date/time.
- End Date
Filter out alerts after a specific date/time. Click the calendar icon to specify a date/time.
- Severity
Filter alerts by severity level. Select a level from the list. The default is All.
- Cluster or Server
Select the cluster or server within the cluster to view the alarms.
- Active Alarms
Select to view only active alarms; the default is to display both active and cleared alarms.
- Aggregate
Select to aggregate alarms that have the same IP address, alarm ID, and severity. (This function is limited to 50,000 alarms.)
- After entering filtering information, click Filter to refresh the display with the filtering applied.
The alarm list is filtered.
- Click Close.
Alarms contain the following information:
- Occurrence
The most recent time this alert was triggered.
- Severity
The severity of the alert:
- Critical—Service is being interrupted (displays in red).
- Major—Service may be interrupted if the issue is not corrected (displays in orange).
- Minor—Non-service affecting fault (displays in yellow).
- Info—Informational message only.
- Clear—Alarm has been cleared.
Note: Alarms generated by Policy Management systems running software lower than release 7.5 are mapped to these levels as follows: Emergency or Critical map to Critical; Alert or Error map to Major; Warning or Notice map to Minor.
- Alarm ID
When clicked, the alarm ID provides online help information.
- Text
User-readable text of the alert.
- OAM VIP
OAM IP address in IPv4 or IPv6 format.
- Server
Name and IP address, in IPv4 or IPv6 format, or FQDN of the device from which this alarm was generated.
To view alert details, click 
(binoculars icon), located to the right of the alert. A window displays additional information.
For example:
Alert Details