7.Administration (continued)
7.4Log Server (continued)
Events
The Events menu consists of 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 that follows appears:
A description of the items from the Search screen is given in the table:
Item | Description |
Search | New search: When selected, the search is performed |
Options | on all the events in the database for the selected KVM. |
| Search last results: This is a secondary search |
| performed on the events that resulted from the last |
| search. |
| Search excluding last results: This is a secondary |
| search performed on all the events in the database for |
| the selected KVM excluding the events that resulted |
| from the last search. |
Server List | KVM switches are listed in the Log Server list according |
| to their IP address. Select the unit that you want to |
| perform the 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 | Determines what types of search results are displayed, |
| according to their level of importance to the security of |
| the installation; Most, Medium or Least. If nothing is |
| selected, all results will display, and they will be color- |
| coded according to level of importance: |
| • Most important: Entries highlighted in red are the |
| most relevant to the security of the installation. |
| • Medium importance: Entries highlighted in blue are |
| somewhat relevant to the security of the installation. |
| • Least importance: Entries highlighted in black are |
| least relevant to the security of the installation. |
Start Date | Select the date that you want the search to start from. |
| The format follows the MM/DD/YYYY convention (e.g. |
| 11/04/2012). |
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. The |
| format follows the MM/DD/YYYY convention (e.g. |
| 11/04/2012). |
End Time | Select the time that you want the search to end. |
Pattern | Key in text here that you want the search to filter the |
| events by. |
Results | The events that matched your search terms are listed |
| here. |
Search | After you have entered in all of your search terms, click |
| this button to start the search. |
Click this button to print the search results. | |
Export | Click this button to export search results as a text file. |
Exit | Click this button to exit the Search dialog box. |
Maintenance
This function allows the Administrator to remove all records that have passed their expiration limit. In order to delete old files from the log server, the maintenance function must be performed.
Options
The Options menu consists of only one function: Network Retry.
Network Retry
Network Retry allows you to set the number of seconds that the Log Server should wait before attempting to connect in the event that the previous connection attempt failed. When you click this item, a dialog box appears:
Key in the desired number of seconds and click OK to finish.
Help
The Help menu consists of two options: Contents and About Log Server.
Contents
Selecting the Contents function will bring up an online help file. The help file contains instructions about how to setup, operate and troubleshoot the Log Server.
About Log Server
Selecting the About Log Server option will pull up a dialog box that gives you the version number of the Log Server.
The Log Server Main Screen
The Log Server Main Screen is divided into two main panels: an upper (List) panel that displays all of the KVM switches that have been added to the Log Server and a lower (Event) panel that displays the log events for the currently selected KVM. To select a KVM from the list, simply click on it.
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