User's Manual

Customizing the DecisioNet System D-23
Examples:
• Execute at 30-minute intervals and run in verbose mode.
eslogmon -m30 –v
• Execute at 60-minute intervals and maintain history of 10 reports.
eslogmon –m60 -h10
• Execute only once.
eslogmon
An alert may be generated if the Log Monitor is started as a service on
Windows NT; however, the service must be configured as interactive.
DecisioNet applications are set to start as manual services at install
time. To configure the Log Monitor service as interactive, select the
startup button on the Windows NT services dialog box, and click on the
allow service to interact with desktop option. If the Log Monitor service is
not configured as interactive, the service only performs user-defined
actions. If no user is logged in on the Windows NT controller, the
dialog box can not be displayed. Therefore, only an audible alarm is
generated by the Log Monitor. When a user logs in, the dialog box is
displayed, requiring the user to acknowledge the alert. Since the
Windows NT dialog box is system modal, the dialog box remains in
the foreground until the user acknowledges the alert.
An alert may be generated if the Log Monitor is started as a
background process on UNIX. A user may ignore the alert by
switching to another virtual terminal, but another alert is generated at
the next iteration of the Log Monitor.
Report information may be viewed immediately if the user selects
“yes” from the Log Monitor Alert dialog box. Report information is
displayed using the editor that has been configured in the basesw.cfg
file. The report consists of information about problems that occurred
up to the date and time that the alert was acknowledged. The
following iteration of the Log Monitor only detects problems that occur
following the user acknowledgment. If the Log Monitor is restarted,
problems that occurred prior to the user acknowledgment will not be
reported.