User`s guide

58UPS Network Management Card 2 User’s Guide
Logs and About menus
Using the Event and Data Logs
The Event Log records individual occurrences. The Data Log, by contrast, provides you with a snapshot of
your system by recording values at regular time intervals.
Event log
Path: Logs > Events > available options
By default, the log displays all events recorded during the last two days, starting with the latest events. See
“Configuring by event”.
In addition, the log records: i) Any event that sends an SNMP trap, except SNMP authentication failures.
ii) Abnormal internal system events.
You can enable event color coding for through “Local Users” on the Configuration menu.
To display the Event Log.
Path: Logs > Events > Log
By default, the Event Log displays the most recent events first. To see the events listed together on a Web page,
click the Launch Log in New Window button. JavaScript must be enabled in your browser to do this.
To open the log in a text file or to save the log to disk, click on the floppy disk icon, , in the same line as the
Event Log heading.
You can also use FTP or Secure CoPy (SCP) to view the Event Log. See “How to use FTP or SCP
to retrieve log files”.
To filter the Event Log. Use filtering to omit information you don’t want to display.
Important points on filtering:
• Events are processed through the filter using OR logic. If you apply a filter, it works regardless of the
other filters.
• Events that you cleared in the Filter By Severity list never display in the filtered Event Log, even if
selected in the Filter by Category list.
• Similarly, events that you clear in the Filter by Category list never display in the filtered Event Log.
To delete the Event Log. To delete all events, click Clear Log. Deleted events cannot be retrieved.
To disable the logging of events based on their assigned severity level or their event category, see
“Configuring by groups of events”.
Filtering the log
by date or time
Use the Last or From radio buttons. (The filter configuration is saved until the NMC
restarts).
Filtering the log
by event severity
or category
Click Filter Log. Clear a check box to remove it from view. After you click Apply text at the
upper right corner of the Event Log page indicates that a filter is active. The filter is active until
you clear it or until the NMC restarts. To remove an active filter, click Filter Log, then Clear
Filter (Show All). As Administrator, click Save As Default to save this filter as the new default
log view for all users.