Logs

For additional details, refer to the following topics:

“Viewing Logs” on page 107

“Downloading a Log” on page 107

“Searching a Log” on page 109

“Resetting a log” on page 108

“Searching a Log” on page 109

Viewing Logs

Logs can be viewed from the Events menu.

View a log file

STEP 1

STEP 2

From the LSM Events menu, click the name of the log you want to view.

Click the desired log.

The LSM updates to display the log page for the selected item.

For details on managing the logs from the log page, see “Managing Logs” on page 106.

Downloading a Log

To save log data, use the download function.

The X family device maintains two files for each log: a historical log file and a current log file. When the current log file reaches the default size (4MB), the log is de-activated and saved as the historical file, and a new log file is started as the current log. If a historical file already exists, that file is deleted.

In the LSM, the log view displays both current and historical log entries. When you download a log file, you have the option to download all the entries, or only the entries in the current log file.

The download function provides the following options:

Download the entire log, or selected entries based on the following user-specified filter criteria: o All — Downloads all entries in the current and historical log files

o Current — Downloads only the entries in the current log file

o Time Range — Specifies the dates and times [optional] for compiling entries. o ID Range — Range of ID numbers for logged entries.

View the log in a web browser

Export the downloaded information to a comma-delimited text file (csv).

Note Downloaded logs provided more detailed information on each event than what is displayed in the LSM interface. For more information, see Appendix C‚ “Log Formats”.

In the downloaded log, file entries are in a tab-delimited format with a line feed character terminating each line. Use WordPad or a spreadsheet application to view downloaded log files on a Windows workstation.

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