HP RISS Components manual Reporting, Searching the Event Viewer, Event Viewer features

9 Reporting

This chapter includes information about the following topics:

•Event Viewer, page 73

•SNMP Management, page 74

•Email Reporter, page 76

•LogFile Sender, page 77

Event Viewer

The Event Viewer shows the critical and recovery events that have occurred in system services or applications. You can also use the Event Viewer to search for events by type.

The following information is displayed in the Event Viewer.

Table 43 Event Viewer features

Feature	Description
Event	Information describing the event, including the service or application
	name.
Machine Type	The type of server on which the event occurred.
IP Address	The IP address of the machine on which the event occurred.
Date	The date and time of the event.
Level	Status of the event:
	•	Critical
	•	Recovery (Recovery represents a transition from a critical status
	value to the normal status value.)
Table 44 Links to Event Viewer
Origin	Link
left menu	Reporting > Event Viewer
left menu	Select Overview, and then click More Details in Application Events

Searching the Event Viewer

To search the Event Viewer:

1.Select a Search Type in the drop-down list.

You can choose from the following types of searches:

•Show All Alerts

•Error Level

•Host Name

•Class Name

•Machine Type

2.In the Search Criteria text box, enter the criteria for the search.

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