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ATLAS 800 Series System Manual

Review Additional Syslog Features

1. The MONITOR feature allows all Syslog messages to be pre-filtered by SYSTEM NAME, SOURCE,

LOT, and PORT before displaying these messages to the user and logging the message to the

predesignated monitor log file. Various filter options may be defined by selecting S

OURCE.

• The following figure shows the S

OURCE FILTER window. When the MONITOR button is selected,

the file will be logged to L

OCAL8.TXT.

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• To look at the text file, click on the EDIT LOG button on the left side of the Syslog screen.

• Only source options selected with an ‘X’ will be displayed in the Syslog file. In this example, all

options will be displayed.

2. Under the LOG FILES menu option, the user may erase log files, define Red events, set priorities, and

clear Red events.

•The E

RASE LOG FILES option will erase the specified text log file.

• D

EFINE RED EVENTS allows the user to predefine a message priority condition so that if the

condition occurs, the file is highlighted in red.

• In the following figure, any C

RITICAL or MAJOR conditions will cause any LOCAL0 through

OCAL7 facility to become highlighted in red if it receives a critical or major alarm.