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Appendices Exporting Tabular Data
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FIGURE 13-2 Export Alarms Data Form - No Criteria Set
The Export Alarms Data from consists of a destination panel and a database match criteria panel. In the destination panel,
you can select the destination for the exported data as either a file on the NMS server or your Web browser. In the
Database Match Criteria panel, you can specify the match criteria, a qualifier, and a match string. The criteria correspond to
fields in the data table, such as Status, Owner. Alarm Message, etc. The qualifiers are match specifications, such as equals to,
not equals to, contains, etc. The match string field is where you type the string you want to match.
The radio buttons in the Export Destination panel allow you to specify the data destination. To send the data to your Web
browser, click the Browser (Client) radio button. If you have more than one Web browser on your machine, select the
desired browser.
To send the data to a file, do the following:
1. Click the Text File (Server) radio button
2. Click File Chooser. The Open form will appear.
3. In the Open form, double-click state in the directory view panel.
Note: You must store your file in the state directory. If you attempt to store your file in any other directory, you will get an error
message.
4. Type the desired filename in the File Name field, and then click Open. The Open form will close, and the file you chose
will appear in the Text File (Server) field of the Export Alerts Data form.
5. Select a data separator from the Separator drop-down list. If the desired separator is not in the list, select other (specify),
and then type the desired separator in the Other field.
Once you have specified the data destination, specify the match criteria in the Database Match Criteria panel as follows:
1. Select a criteria from the drop-down list, select a qualifier from the qualifier drop-down list, and then enter a match string
in the match string field.
2. If you need more qualifiers, click More, and then enter the additional qualifier. Repeat as necessary.