Specifications

19 – Configuring Extended Event Archiving
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About Extended Event Archiving
You use the Extended Event Archiving and Reporting System to enable extended
event collection and recall.
When extended events collection is enabled, PlantScape periodically copies the
events from the event file and places them into the Online Extended Event file for
queries and reporting. When the Online Extended Event file becomes full, it is
copied into an archive folder and an alarm is generated to alert the operator to
save the archived file to backup tape.
The contents of the tape are verified automatically when the backup is complete.
The status (success or failure) of the backup is logged in the Event Summary, and
the operator is notified with a message.
If necessary, you can also perform an early backup (that is, before the event file
becomes full and an alarm is raised). You can restore an archive of events from
tape at any time, and standard PlantScape reports can be used to access this
information.
The reporting capability of Extended Event Archiving and Reporting allows you
to run alarm and event reports from an individual archive restored from tape.
Tape Drives for Archiving
Extended Event Archiving uses Windows Backup to save and restore events to
and from tape. Therefore, any device supported by Windows Backup can be
used for PlantScape backups.
For details about configuring a suitable tape device, see the Microsoft Windows
documentation. For more information about backing up PlantScape, see the
Administration and Startup Guide.
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