Tripp Lite B020-016-17-IP Menu Bar, Menu bar consists of four items, Search, Maintenance

12.Log Server (continued)

12.3Menu Bar

The Menu bar consists of four items:

•Configure

•Events

•Options

•Help

Note: If the Menu Bar appears to be disabled, you may need to click in the list window to enable it.

12.3.1 Configure

The Configure menu contains three items: Add, Edit, and Delete. They are used to add new units to the list, edit the information for units already on the list, or delete units from the list.

•To add a KVM switch to the list, click Add.

•To edit or delete a listed KVM switch, first select the one you want in the list window, then open this menu and click Edit or Delete.

When you choose Add or Edit, a dialog box, similar to the one below appears:

Field	Explanation
	This can either be the IP address of the KVM switch
Address	or its DNS name (if the network administrator has
	assigned it a DNS name).
Port	The port number that was assigned to the Log
	Server in the KVM switch’s OSD.
Description	This field is provided so that you can put in a
	descriptive reference for the unit to help identify it.
	This specifies the number of days that an event
Limit	should be kept in the Log Server’s database before
	it expires and it is cleared out.

Fill in or modify the fields, then click OK to finish.

12.3.2 Events

The Events Menu has two items: Search and Maintenance.

Search

Search allows you to search for events containing specific words or strings. When you access this function, a screen similar to the one below appears:

A description of the items is given in the table below:

Item	Explanation
	This is one of three radio buttons that define the
New search	scope of the search. If it is selected, the search is
	performed on all the events in the database for the
	selected KVM switch.
Search last results	This is a secondary search performed on the events
	that resulted from the last search.
Search excluding	This is a secondary search performed on all the
	events in the database for the selected KVM switch
last results
	excluding the events that resulted from the last search.

Item	Explanation
	KVM switches are listed according to their IP
	address. Select the unit that you want to perform the
Server List	search on from this list. You can select more than
	one unit for the search. If no units are selected, the
	search is performed on all of them.
Priority List	Sets the level for how detailed the search results
	display should be.
	Select the date that you want the search to
Start Date	start from. The format follows the MM/DD/YYYY
	convention, as follows: 06/11/2007
Start Time	Select the time that you want the search to start from.
End Date	Select the date that you want the search to end at.
End Time	Select the time that you want the search to end at.
	Key in the pattern that you are searching for here.
Pattern	The multiple character wildcard (%) is supported.
	E.g., h%ds would display all records that contain a
	words that start with an h and end with ds.
Results	Lists the events that contained matches for the
	search.
Search	Click this button to start the search.
Print	Click this button to print the search results.
Exit	Click this button to exit the Search dialog box.

Maintenance

This function allows the administrator to perform manual maintenance of the database, such as erasing specified records before the expiration time that was set with the Limit setting of the Edit function.

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