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. | ||
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Description | This field is provided so that you can put in a | |
descriptive reference for the unit to help identify it. | ||
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| 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. | ||
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Search | Click this button to start the search. | |
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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