# Clear orphaned alarms

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/clear-orphaned-alarms/7416>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [October 15, 2013, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/clear-orphaned-alarms/7416 "2013-10-15T16:12:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![hensoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9dc877/32.png) [@hensoa](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/hensoa)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/clear-orphaned-alarms/7416/1 "2013-10-15T16:12:05Z")

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If an alarm is deleted from a sqltag whilst in the alarm state can the alarm please be deleted from all internal tables. It is very inconvenient to have to re-start the gateway to rid onesself of the alarm that remains behind in this condition

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**Author:** ![jsham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@jsham](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jsham)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/clear-orphaned-alarms/7416/2 "2013-10-15T16:57:38Z")

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I’ve had luck using the alarm test console to clear orphaned alarms. You just have to be sure to enter everything into it exactly as it’s represented in the alarm db and reset the alarm to cleared/acked.